Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

Seventh-graders Jason Tran, left, and David Sushkov work out a problem with a kid-friendly coding program in their computer science class at Mills Middle School in Folsom Cordova Unified School ...

Brain scans show that most of us have a built-in capacity to learn to code, rooted in the brain’s logic and reasoning ...

A broad survey of the computer science discipline, focusing on the computer's role in representing, storing, manipulating, organizing and communicating information. Topics include hardware, software, ...

This is your brain on computer programming. The post How learning computer programming ‘rewires’ parts of the brain appeared ...

Learning to code doesn’t require new brain systems—it builds on the ones we already use for logic and reasoning.

Spanish. French. German. Computer coding. Are they the same? This question is at the center of a debate in Florida, where legislators are currently considering a bill that would require high schools ...

LANSING, MI — Instead of learning a foreign language, Michigan students could take computer coding classes to replace the high school graduation requirement, under a bill that passed the state House ...

A Florida bill that would have allowed high school students to replace foreign language courses with computer coding classes was rejected in the state House after gaining strong favor in the state ...

Florida senators approved a bill allowing high school students to take computer coding classes in place of foreign language requirements. The bill (SB 468), introduced by Sen. Jeremy Ring’s ...