Spanish, French, German — or JavaScript? An Albuquerque state senator is pushing for computer programming to be counted as a foreign language under New Mexico’s public school academic requirements.

Computer coding ability has gotten especially hip recently. People who can’t code revere it as 21st century sorcery, while those who do it professionally are often driven to fits by it. And it was 50 ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Editor's note: This article is part of a four-part series introducing readers to a just a few of the many faces who left Iowa City schools this May. Congratulations to everyone in the Iowa City ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — With nearly a quarter of the state lacking access to broadband Internet, computer code may already seem like Greek to many students in Kentucky. Now one lawmaker wants to put it on ...

So we ended last episode with programming at the hardware level with things like plugboards and huge panels of switches, but what was really needed was a more versatile way to program computers - ...

Generative AI is transforming software development by enabling natural language prompts to generate code, reducing the need for traditional programming skills and making English the new coding ...

Oracle and Google's phalanxes of lawyers are finally set to face off in a San Francisco courtroom, after two years of pretrial wrangling in their dispute over Android and the Java programming language ...

Being the only girl, coupled with being the only Hispanic student, in many of the computer science classes and programs Athena Coco Hernandez was in, was a lot. Don’t misunderstand, though. It wasn’t ...