It was a very simple program—all it does is draw a square on a screen—but that's the point, says Hadi Partovi, co-founder Code.org, an organization that promotes computer science education.

writing words won out over writing code. Though I did find it fascinating to learn to think the way computers do, there seemed to be something fundamentally backward about programming a computer ...

Since its creation, Code.org‘s mission has been to get coding into curriculums for students as schools nationwide. Today, the nonprofit group is launching Code Studio, a combined set of tools ...

Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code ... At first, programming a computer involved literally connecting ...

Though researchers have long suspected the brain mechanism for computer ... learn programming, everything from do-it-yourself tutorials to formal courses, it's surprising that we find such a ...