“I CERTAINLY didn’t set out to create a language that was intended for mass consumption,” says Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist who devised Python, a programming ...

Joel Gratcyk's son Wesley spends a few hours a week learning to code in Python, PHP, and Swift. Wesley started taking free courses when he was 7 and uses both online and library resources.

The Coding Club at Alexander Hamilton High School is preparing for two programming competitions. The club teaches students Java and Python programming skills. Students in the Coding Club at ...