A digital thunderstorm rumbled into a Conte West School classroom of rising third graders who were in the middle of a computer-code-created camping trip. That was the scene at Conte West School ...

A rapt group of kindergartners watched as their teacher brandished Dash, a bright blue robot about the size of a Chihuahua, as part of their coding lesson Monday at Reed Elementary School. “First we ...

Wylie Wong is a freelance journalist who specializes in business, technology and sports. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. A group of state governors recently ...

Why is learning to code a big deal? Here's one reason: In 2015, as many as 7 million job openings were in occupations that required coding skills, reported Burning Glass, a job-market analytics firm.

In his first lesson in computer coding, Bozeman third-grader Carter Chapo learned how to give simple directions to move a figure on a laptop computer screen through a staircase maze. “Woo hoo! I ...

Kids are obsessed with computer games, spending countless hours in front of screens. Few know how those games work, and even fewer could create them themselves. But kids at Brookside Elementary in ...

If you want to try and learn a new skill during your free time, you might want to consider learning to code. Coding isn’t the toughest of skills to learn, and you can actually make a career out of it.

Coding is important—and not just for nerds. In the world we all live in, smartphones, computers, and the Internet are part of our daily lives. As you learn to code, you begin to understand how all ...