Perhaps unnerved by a future filled with automated jobs, 90% of American parents want their children to study computer science. How much longer Python’s rise will continue is anybody’s guess.

Coding is like telling a computer what to do, and in games, it’s how you make stuff happen. Imagine code as a conversation between the creator and the game. Every line is a simple command, like ...

This past semester, I took an introductory Python course with roughly fifty undergraduate and a handful of graduate peers. The course—“COMP 10: Computer Science For All”—was designed specifically for ...