When personal computers first became popular in the 1980s, every school in the country taught computer programming to every student. That was a bad idea. Students should not be forced to learn ...

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Programming is one of the significant computing skills in today’s world. Over 90% of businesses and other utilities are supported by software and applications built over programs. The digital ...

Probably both. Scratch is a new program from the MIT Media Lab that lets students (and anyone else who wants to play with funky sprites and interesting bits of code) easily create and share animations ...

Computer programming is not usually taught to 8-year-olds. But a new system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology turns building video games into child’s play. The system is called ...

Computer programming is how the future is being built. With the tech industry advancing at record speeds, there’s always someone behind the scenes making it all come together. With a bit of training, ...