In Ottawa, a program called TechU.me is pairing Grade 10 students with Grade 3 kids in a project to have them all learn more about coding. The project started in four schools and is now in 55.

During his 14 years of teaching computer programming at Eric Hamber, many of Mr. Arkiletian's students have gone on to study computer science in university.

FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's Liberal leader promised Thursday to create a fund to teach computer programming in schools. Brian Gallant said the province has a generation of students who are ...