Teaching computer programming to youth can prepare them for the future job market, promote equity in tech professions and develop students’ computational thinking skills.

Part of the cover illustration from "The Applesoft Tutorial" BASIC manual that shipped with the Apple II computer starting in 1981. Credit: Apple, Inc.

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 ...