I wondered for quite a long time: does only knowing the basics of computer science help to become a better developer? And could it bring value to a developer? If you ask yourself these questions as ...

More and more jobs are requiring some knowledge about how computers work. Not just how to start one up and surf the web, but how they actually run, how—at the simplest level—a series of inputs leads ...

A handful of nonprofit and for-profit groups are working to address what they see as a national education crisis: Too few of America's K-12 public schools actually teach computer science basics and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Griffin covers postsecondary education and the future of work. This summer, I drove 500 miles to enroll my school-age boys ...

In 2023, the LeNoir Foundation, a UK-based 'for impact' organization, concluded the construction of a library at Saving Arms Primary School in Kampala, Uganda. While outfitting the facility with ...

If you gave Shelley Charlton an Excel spreadsheet to maneuver, the high school business teacher could dazzle you. But if you asked her how to solve a problem using the Snap! visual programming ...

To teach language to the youngest students, you first introduce them to the letters of the alphabet and the sounds that the letters make. Next, you step forward into combining letters into simple ...

Could tutoring a computer be the way to develop machines that talk back? Scientists in Israel are treating their computer like an unruly child, correcting its mistakes and punishing it for errors. If ...

Taylor Howell works on a Java coding assignment in Lisa Whallon's class at Olathe Northwest High School. A teenager wakes up, gets ready for school. Slips a smartphone into her pocket on the way out ...

Editor’s Note: Douglas Rushkoff writes a regular column for CNN.com. He is a media theorist and the author of “Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age” and “Life Inc.: How Corporatism ...

Computer Science students are constantly getting into trouble for lifting entire blocks of code from the Internet. Yesterday, the New York Times published a fascinating piece about academic dishonesty ...