"It's fun," says 8th grader, Wilson Johnson. "I like mainly the coding, and learning different lifestyles." Johnson is one of dozens of teens learning the ins and outs of computer technology alongside ...
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 ...
The internet was still in its infancy when John F. Coburn went to prison in 1991. Video cassette recorders or VCRs were still popular. CDs were just beginning to replace cassette tapes and movies were ...
Use these tips to build computer science programs into new or existing classes and find the right teachers for the job. Students can build many skills when learning computer science, beyond the ones ...
This past semester, I took an introductory Python course with roughly fifty undergraduate and a handful of graduate peers. The course—“COMP 10: Computer Science For All”—was designed specifically for ...
We had a tremendous response to the class and have 16 'students' enrolled right now, but we had several more who came to us late and due to space, we weren't able to accommodate them at this time," ...
As recently as a decade or two ago, technology education consisted of typing, learning to draft emails, or doing a little work in a spreadsheet. Learning those skills may have been relegated to a ...
This story is part of a series on how we learn—from augmented reality to music-training devices. For the students in Emanuelle Burton’s ethics class, the story is tricky to grok. “They’re like, you ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about neuroscience and its intersection with technology. This past week, Elon Musk’s new venture Neuralink made headlines ...