People who got their first taste of IT during the microcomputer boom in the 1970s and 1980s almost certainly started by writing programs in Basic — or, at least, they debugged programs typed in from ...

A team of computer scientists has developed a videogame called CodeSpells that teaches people how to code in Java. The game was tested on a group of 10- to 12-year-old girls who had never done any ...

Knowing how to program a computer is good for you, and it’s a shame more people don’t learn to do it. For years now, that’s been a hugely popular stance. It’s led to educational initiatives as ...