The first computer program I ever wrote, in the second grade, was composed in pencil and ran on the platform known as my friend Nicholas. We were about to start learning Logo, the program that teaches ...

LITTLE ROCK — Robots - not the "Danger Will Robinson!" kind from the television series Lost in Space - but rather small disc-shaped ones, like the Roomba vacuum robot, are part of the curriculum at ...

There was a time when computers were far too expensive to let mere students use them. In those days, we wrote fake programs for fictitious machines and checked them by hand. That wasn’t fun, but it ...

Learning to code seems an increasingly practical skill in a digitizing world. Languages that were once known only to a few masters in their field are beginning to be democratized. However, not ...