Living in our tech focused region of the world, it seems you can’t swing a mouse in Seattle without slapping a computer scientist in the face. But according to Jane Broom, Microsoft’s director of ...

As part of Computer Science Education Week, students around the world will participate in Hour of Code, a grassroots movement founded by national nonprofit Code.org to make coding more accessible.

Non-profit computer science advocacy group CODE.org promotes its ongoing "Hour of Code" campaign by giving students an audience with Gabe Newell, managing director of Half-Life creator Valve ...

With the tech industry concerned about the lack of skilled programmers coming up through the ranks, it’s hoped that this week’s Hour of Code initiative, which is taking place as part of Computer ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Caledonia's Kraft Meadows Middle School won $10,000 worth of computers as Michigan's grand prize winner for "Hour of Code." The Hour of Code is a national campaign, sponsored by the ...

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 ...

America wants you to learn how to code. While Barack Obama didn’t pull out an Uncle Sam-style finger point, he certainly addressed coding as something of a civic duty in a YouTube video released this ...

Excitement reverberated throughout School District 25 as K-5 learners participated in the global Hour of Code initiative during the week of Dec. 9-13. This event not only extends learning ...

Since it began in 2013, Hour of Code has been promoted as an event that can change a young person’s life by exposing him or her to the wonders of computing even if only for 60 minutes. But is Hour of ...