Kids Still Need to Learn to Code in the AI Era

Learning to code has never been a golden ticket to professional success. Students apply the coding skills they learn to ...
The Stanford Daily

Code in Place: A ‘learning laboratory’ for education

To most Stanford students, CS 106A: Programming Methodology is a rite of passage: each year, the introductory programming course supports over 1,600 students from all academic disciplines. However, ...
MIT Technology Review

Learning to code isn’t enough

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 ...
Psychology Today

Learning to Code Requires Language Skills, Not Math

New research might widen access to learning computer programming. Source: skynesher/iStock It is routinely assumed that to be a computer programmer—to write code, in other words—you need to be good at ...
The Atlantic

Six Reasons a Non-Computer Nerd Might Want to Learn to Code

Though coder Jeff Atwood thinks coding isn't for non-computer geeks, we can think of a lot of reasons normals should learn computer language. Atwood, on his blog Coding Horror, miffed by the "everyone ...
Wired

Now for AI’s Latest Trick: Writing Computer Code

It can take years to learn how to write computer code well. SourceAI, a Paris startup, thinks programming shouldn’t be such a big deal. The company is fine-tuning a tool that uses artificial ...
Forbes

Should Everyone Learn To Code? 15 Tech Pros Weigh In On Why Or Why Not

Today’s world is growing more and more tech-driven. For example, coding is becoming a must-know for professionals in the technology industry, among others. Because of this, many new workers—whether ...
The Gazette

Learning the code

CEDAR RAPIDS — Computer science is playing a bigger role in Iowa schools every year. So for young students, getting a head start seems like a smart idea. That’s what NewBoCo is aiming to do with its ...
kristv

Alice elementary students learn computer science skills

ALICE, TEXAS — “Statistics show that more than 50 percent of jobs are geared towards computer science. "So it's gonna help these students in their future endevors get a job. ” Saenz Elementary School ...
KETV Omaha

Hour of Code event introduces hundreds of Council Bluffs students to computer coding

DAYS SERVED. NEW ON KETV. ABOUT 900 COUNCIL BLUFFS STUDENTS LEARN HOW TO CODE. TODAY. EM INSTITUTE’S HOUR OF CODE MAKES A STOP AT WOODROW WILSON MIDDLE SCHOOL. THEY SAY COMPUTER CODING RELATED ...
Science Daily

To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language

Neuroscientists have found reading computer code does not rely on the regions of the brain involved in language processing. Instead, it activates the 'multiple demand network,' which is also recruited ...