This year has seen the highest increase in the number of U.S. high schools offering a foundational computer science course since 2018, with more than half of U.S. high schools now offering one, but ...

Over a decade after introducing students to the fundamentals of computer science through its Hour of Code campaign, education nonprofit Code.org is broadening its reach with a new program that bridges ...

Teacher Jake Baskin remembers exactly where he was when he first watched the viral 2013 video that introduced Code.org to the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Code.org is getting a $15 million cash infusion from Facebook over the next five years to teach more young women and underrepresented minorities how to code. At Facebook, only 17% of ...

The Flappy Bird craze isn’t quite over yet. To celebrate a few milestones, Code.org today released a “Make Your Own Flappy Bird” tutorial that lets kids as young as six years old learn how to make ...

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 ...

Hadi Partovi made his fortune as a cofounder of Tellme Networks, sold to Microsoft for some $800 million in 2007, and with smart investments in Dropbox, Facebook and Airbnb. For the past four years, ...

REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 15, 2016 — Microsoft Corp. and Code.org on Tuesday unveiled the Minecraft Hour of Code Designer, a coding tutorial for students and educators created for Hour of Code, an annual, ...

I am in the midst of my third year of teaching coding at my school to nine and ten years old students, and I made a significant change this year after reflecting over the last two cycles. As I began ...

These statistics are actually pretty ridiculous. We focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) in many of our conversations, but actual programming rarely enters the picture. We ...