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Computer science education is making its way into K-12 schools, even at the elementary level. In the middle of a resounding push for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is a ...
Activities: Teach loops, conditionals, and variables in Scratch. This is where the book “Everything You Need to Ace Computer Science and Coding in One Big Fat Notebook” will come in handy to ...
Having taught coding for almost 10 years to hundreds of students, I often present at conferences or run workshops for teachers new to computer science. Many teachers are trying to build a CS program ...
The Georgetown University Women Coders, also known as guWeCode, launched the second annual Coding Party in the Healey Family Student Center on Jan. 18 to promote more women to engage and participate ...
Each year it provides over 100,000 young people in over 2,000 high schools access to Intro or AP Computer Science courses; awards 100 students with four-year $10,000 scholarships, and offers ...
Since the first coding boot camps were founded in 2011 and 2012, there’s no clear impact here, but note that computer science degrees had already seen a sharp decline since their peak in 2003.
Its gamelike software, The Foos, teaches basic computer programming skills — "the ABCs of coding"— with no reading necessary. It's aimed at children as young as 5, and it has been downloaded ...
According to code.org, the number of computing jobs is rising three times faster than the number of computer science graduates, and experts predict there will be 1 million unfulfilled computer ...
Building blocks — both the digital and physical variety — were on display at Cerritos Computer Science Immersion Magnet School Thursday as students from transitional kindergarten through sixth ...
Bootcamps vs. College A coding bootcamp is not a condensed version of a college computer science curriculum. Coding bootcamps place an emphasis on practice.
At Juniper Elementary School, Bend-La Pine Schools’ technology magnet school, the entire school is celebrating Computer Science Education Week with a full week of engaging, hands-on activities.