Two Summers back, Nigel Nisbet didn’t have much use for sunglasses. After a week-long training course, the Van Nuys High School math teacher spent his vacation days learning Java computer programming.

The prospect of diving into the world of computer science and programming can be overwhelming. There are seemingly a ton of coding languages, and it’s hard to decide where and how to begin.

Math, computer science teacher Firoza Rahman founded Coding Club for students interested in programming at Alexander Hamilton High School in Elmsford.

Professor Adam Cannon’s famed Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Java (COMS W1004) is one of Columbia’s most well-known CS courses, but we all want to know what a course is really ...