Microsoft and Code.org have come together to debut Minecraft Designer, a free tutorial for students aged 6 and up that uses the Minecraft environment to teach coding. Minecraft Designer is a free, ...

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 ...

ANSBACH, Germany (Dec. 22, 2014) -- On Dec. 11 at Ansbach Middle High School, students and teachers participated in the second annual "Hour of Code," a global event that engages millions of people in ...

Code.org wants more high schools to offer computer science courses, and now it’s getting help from the College Board to do so. Seattle-based Code.org today announced a new partnership with College ...

While computer science education experts acknowledged the uncertainty of the job market right now, they argued it’s still ...

Since its creation, Code.org‘s mission has been to get coding into curriculums for students as schools nationwide. Today, the nonprofit group is launching Code Studio, a combined set of tools and ...

Editor’s note: Kate Ray is the technical cofounder of scroll kit, a visual webpage creation tool that was recently acquired by WordPress.com. One of the most dangerous things I’ve seen happen to ...

While some executives still preach the importance of learning the basics, others say there are more valuable skills to know ...

The message from many educators, technology industry executives and politicians is clear – everyone should learn how to code. But why? “As more communication is being conducted through code, we are ...