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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- When most of us were in school, we took science classes like biology and chemistry, but computer science may be even more important for today's kids. Yet nearly 90% of ...

A lot of kids are outside playing Pokémon Go, but there are a few boys and girls who are in the classroom learning to make their own video game. A computer coding class is giving computer-savvy ...

For Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 7-13), the nonprofit Code.org has helped organize nearly 200,000 "Hour of Code" events around the world. It's advocating for computer coding as a basic ...

In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. A new study of an unusually rich dataset in Maryland found ...

Just about every list of U.S. metro areas that are high-tech centers lists Atlanta in the top 20, but Georgia leaders have visions of moving the entire state even further. They want students to be ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Lawmakers will vote next week on a bill that would allow high school students to substitute computer coding classes for foreign language requirements. For one student, it could ...

A movement by parents and lawmakers to get computer coding classes to count toward foreign language credits in school hit a snag this month — but advocates aren't giving up. Sen. Jeremy Ring, a former ...

Back when Grant Hosford's older daughter was in first grade, she signed up for an extracurricular class, building robots with a programmable Lego toy called Mindstorms. Hosford, a dot-com entrepreneur ...

One of the hottest Stanford CS courses this semester embraces rather than bans AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude.