I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

In honor of Computer Science Education Week, I am doing a series about Computer Science. The first post was about how I got into the field. Today's topic is "programming for fun." Maybe you're in a ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. - CodeMontana founder Greg Gianforte said just six weeks after their launch, they surpassed the halfway mark for their sign up goal. "We're thrilled," Gianforte said. Right now, over ...

Knowing how to program a computer is good for you, and it’s a shame more people don’t learn to do it. For years now, that’s been a hugely popular stance. It’s led to educational initiatives as ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

This is an introductory course on the fundamentals of computer programming. I see this class as an opportunity for you, the student, to see what computer programming is all about and (more importantly ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Microsoft yesterday announced the release of Quantum Katas, a self-paced programming project that teaches developers how to write code for quantum computers. Quantum Katas, as the name implies, are ...

Writing code is a terrible way for humans to instruct computers. Lucky for us, new technology is about to render programming languages about as useful as Latin. The headlong global frenzy to teach ...

Like most high school students, Wells Community Academy junior Darius Taplet doesn’t know much about computer programming, a skill that is increasingly seen as a ticket to the good life. But the ...

For decades, fierce debates have raged over the benefits of different programming languages over others: Java vs. C++; Python vs. Ruby; Flask vs. Django. While often waged with fervor by computer ...

Computer-programming employment fell steeply after the introduction of ChatGPT and has returned to its lowest level since 1980. Computer-programming employment in the U.S. has reached its lowest level ...