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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. by Kurt Schlosser on Mar 4 ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Unity Technologies (https://unity.com), creator of the world’s most widely used real-time 3D development platform, today announced that Create with Code and Unity Teach ...

A new way to teach a new subject - Ozaria is a computer science program, an adventure game, and a fantasy story where students master the lost magic of coding to save their world. SAN ...

Holly Baxter asks tech experts what students should actually study, now ‘learn to code’ is dead — and gets some surprising ...

Would it surprise you to know that most schools don’t teach computer science—not even the basics? It should, especially given that there will be about 1 million more U.S. jobs in the tech sector in ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, middle, observes as Rainier View Elementary School students in Seattle take part in a previous year’s Hour of Code. (Stephen Brashear/AP Images for Microsoft) ...

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 ...

One of UCLA’s greatest ironies is that its computer science curriculum is just a series of textbooks. So much for building the next Facebook. Computer science students have long complained that their ...