Government Technology

Code.org: Over 10,000 High Schools Don’t Teach Compsci

This year has seen the highest increase in the number of U.S. high schools offering a foundational computer science course since 2018, with more than half of U.S. high schools now offering one, but ...
CNET

Microsoft pledges $10M to Code.org to expand computer education

Microsoft has committed $10 million by 2020 to Code.org, a nonprofit that works to spread computer science education in K-12 schools across the US. "When students engage in computer science, they are ...
Department of Computer Science - University of Texas at Austin

Coding in the Classroom

Coding in the Classroom is an outreach initiative in which members of the UT Computer Science community teach coding in local ...
Microsoft

Cracking the code to helping educators learn and teach computer science

If you gave Shelley Charlton an Excel spreadsheet to maneuver, the high school business teacher could dazzle you. But if you asked her how to solve a problem using the Snap! visual programming ...
JSTOR Daily

Code Switch: Alternative Visions of Computer Expertise as Empowerment from the 1960s to the 2010s

Technology and Culture, Vol. 59, No. 4S, Special Issue: Shift CTRL: New Directions in the History of Computing (October 2018), pp. S134-S159 (26 pages) In the 2010s, claims that learning to program ...
The New York Times

Hadi Partovi Was Raised in a Revolution. Today He Teaches Kids to Code.

The founder and chief executive of Code.org, who was born in Iran, says computer science is a “foundational skill,” one that future doctors, lawyers and politicians should all possess. Hadi Partovi, ...