It is 3.31pm and the bell has just rung to signal the end of school. But on the fifth floor of De Beauvoir Primary School in east London, two 10-year-old boys have rushed into the computer lab.

Teaching children to code with computers is only part of the challenge to preparing people for a career in the IT industry. But it can also do more harm that good in some cases.

Vancouver web developer Melody Ma was an enthusiastic supporter of the B.C. government's decision to add computer coding to the provincial school curriculum. She organized last month's Hour of ...

“I got into it when I was 11. I was just doing math in my school’s computer lab and then I went to the computer science page and I tried it out,” said Grade 8 Linden Meadows student Zach Lowden.

The B.C. government unveiled plans Monday to introduce computer coding in its school curriculum, addressing a chronic skills shortage in one of the few areas of the Canadian economy that is doing ...

Google's Programming for non-programmers" effort is part of Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 4-10), which is held in honor of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper and is designed to get everyone, but ...

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Ideally, programmers will need the best components and a healthy dose of RAM for a laptop that can handle the right sort of workload. There's little that you can put past MacBook Pro 16-inch (M4 ...

For project managers, she said editing and "taste-making" would be more important than ever. Microsoft's CPO Aparna Chennapragada doesn't buy the idea that coding is on its way out.

Will Neuner, another rising sophomore working on the honeypots project, says Code+ gives him valuable computer programming experience. “We get the opportunity and time that you don’t get during the ...