The world is much different than when we were growing up. Teaching coding to kids was something very few people thought about. But today, parents and teachers know that teaching kids to code has lots ...

Code Ninjas, a center in South Naperville where kids learn to code during afterschool programs and camps, is celebrating the global Computer Science Education Week with a series of events for area ...

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 ...

Campers at the 2023 Summer of Code program on Tuesday, Aug. 1. They were building custom, programmable robots and testing command prompts. The 2023 Summer of Code is a weeklong initiative dedicated to ...

Code Ninjas is the world’s fastest growing children’s coding franchise, with more than 300 locations world wide and counting, and they’re celebrating their first anniversart the week of Tuesday, April ...

With time, effort and special instruction, William Bradley, 9, at the end of his session had accomplished his mission. He had designed and built a computer game where he accumulates points by touching ...

It's a program called Black Kids Code teaching participants how to make their own app and how to believe themselves. One of the program's leaders is CEO of J Computer Solutions Jyrone Parker. He has ...

The public narrative about the value of a computer science degree has long centered around the promise of six-figure salaries and a secure career path. Today, headlines about a computer science ...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the absurd notion (forwarded by Codecademy.com and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg) that anyone could become a serious, worthwhile programmer, and get a decent ...

Is coding a necessary competency that kids need to learn? Or does the large specter of AI on the horizon and some grim prognostications have you questioning if signing your kid up for summer coding ...