CHENNAI: IIT-Madras NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) will offer its ‘Programming, data structures and algorithms using Pytho.

Teaching computer programming to youth can prepare them for the future job market, promote equity in tech professions and develop students’ computational thinking skills.

CHENNAI: Starting next academic year, students in classes 6 to 9 in Tamil Nadu will learn the basics of computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), coding, and online tools as part of their ...

Once upon a time, knowing how to use a computer was virtually synonymous with knowing how to program one. And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC.

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob. Throughout the ...