Second-grader Harris Jolliffe was glued to a computer screen at Whitney Elementary School on Thursday evening. “Flappy Bird,” a simple but challenging computer game in which users press the space bar ...
On Nov. 1, Microsoft will be releasing its newest Minecraft Hour of Code tutorial, which, according to a recent announcement, could be "possibly the most adventurous tutorial yet." The company has ...
Jocks and nerds haven’t always gotten along in years past, but Code.org aims to bring them together for the third annual Hour of Code with a sports-themed coding campaign. The campaign, which kicks ...
Computer science has been called the new literacy for the 21st century. And yet, computer science education is on the decline in the U.S., where only 5 percent of students learn how to program. The ...
Madison County middle school students spent an hour Wednesday speaking the language of the digital age — coding. The event was part of an Hour of Code, an annual global movement from nonprofit, ...
The school-wide coding activity was the culmination of time spent working on the nonprofit Code.org website throughout Computer Science Week from Dec. 5-11. This was the first year that the Round Lake ...
Amazon and Code.org partner for this year’s Hour of Code, which aims to inspire one million girls during the first week of December to try coding their own dance party Over 1,000 Amazon employees ...
Every year in school, teachers have their students take out their laptops and log on to Hour of Code to learn how to code and make music, art, and games. The problem is, this only happens once a year.
In advance of Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek, December 3–9), an annual event to get students excited about coding, the American Library Association (ALA) is opening a call for applications ...