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Living in our tech focused region of the world, it seems you can’t swing a mouse in Seattle without slapping a computer scientist in the face. But according to Jane Broom, Microsoft’s director of ...
A new campaign for Computer Science Education Week is attempting to get 10 million K-12 students to spend an hour learning how to code.
"The goal of the Hour of Code is not to teach anybody to become an expert computer scientist in one hour," reads the description on Hour of Code's homepage. "One hour is only enough to learn that ...
Salisbury Academy is joining in a global program called Hour of Code this week. The goal is to transform the interest many students have in iPad and smart phone games into a skill — it teaches them ...
As students around the world participated in Hour of Code, some in Chester County built Web pages complete with Christmas trees and reindeer. Cathy Whitehead, a teacher at West Chester Elementary ...
Code.org wants to make computer science a staple of the classroom, and it's taking a big step toward that goal today with the launch of its Hour of Code campaign. More than 30,000 US schools (35,000 ...
With the tech industry concerned about the lack of skilled programmers coming up through the ranks, it’s hoped that this week’s Hour of Code initiative, which is taking place as part of Computer ...
Microsoft and Code.org are betting on kids' familiarity with Minecraft to help make computer programming more approachable.