Instructors of a new self-paced version of Introduction to Computer Programming found that three weeks before the end of classes, about half of the students enrolled were halfway through the course ...

On the first day of introductory computer science class EECS 183 — Elementary Programming Concepts — 82 percent of the students enrolled in the class had never seen code before, according to Computer ...

Even if programming languages contained the same history, complexity, and richness of human language, the closest analogy to a programming class in foreign language instruction would be a class in ...

Students try to figure out what went wrong → they learn to debug code, which will end up being 80% of their time programming. They also learn skills like writing code in small batches, testing, etc.

But overall, Shelby wants his students to learn, not just pass the class, and to have a conceptual understanding of what it means to be a computer programmer. “I hope that kids learn what the ...

When we bring programming to math class, we add a new layer of problem solving: translating mathematical problems/ideas to execute them in code. This often requires students to deepen their ...

The largest computer programming class held in a single venue was held in Dallas, Texas on October 31, 2016, with 724 attendees. The following photo was taken by Rodrigo, a programmer who led the ...