The process of writing computer programs is known as coding. Until recently, most computer code was written, at least originally, by human beings.

Last summer as the pandemic raged, Rock Bridge High School students Zihao Zhou and Yogev Angelovici began their project of online tutoring in computer coding for younger students. Both are 16.

Kistler said there are a variety of websites students can look at to learn more about coding, including code.org where more than 20 million U.S. students maintain accounts.

Computer programmers are urging that K-12 students be introduced to computer coding—designing and writing source code for computers—early in their school careers, due to a growing scarcity of ...

The computer will then execute the resulting program — this is the end product of coding. In actual day-to-day coding, though, there are additional quality control and error-correction steps.

More young students of today will be the computer science leaders of tomorrow. Even now, young students learn "coding language" and how to use it to create new programs.

"We need more Black engineers, more Black scientists, more Black computer gamers," Brooks said. She described a happy coincidence when late last year, a kids’ coding nonprofit reached out to her ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of ...