Historically, learn-to-code efforts have provided opportunities for the few, but new efforts are aiming to be inclusive. A decade ago, tech powerhouses the likes of Microsoft, Google, and Amazon ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...

To many people, coding is about precision. It’s about telling a computer what to do and having the computer perform those actions exactly, precisely, and repeatedly. With the rise of AI tools like ...

Leo Porter receives funding from the National Science Foundation and receives compensation for sales of the book "Learn AI-Assisted Python Programming." Daniel Zingaro receives funding from the ...

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More than 30,000 students worldwide have signed up for prior versions of Stanford University's free, online Code In Place course. Now it's being offered once again. Stanford University will once again ...

Ada Lovelace was a visionary who first recognized the potential of computer programming. Almost two centuries on, six women in computer science and technology reflect on their experiences in the field ...

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Earlier this year, the technology world welcomed back a long-lost friend. ELIZA, the world’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, had wowed the computer scientists of the mid-1960s with its ability ...

A free, on-line computer programming course from Stanford University is reaching thousands of learners thanks to the help of thousands of volunteer instructors. Stanford University is once again ...

Van “Kendy” Nguyen, 16, didn’t know anything about computer science. Gradi Kabeya, 17, hadn’t done any coding before but said computer science seemed cool and useful. Hazel Ochoa, 16, had dabbled in ...