This is why we want to make the case for moving another discipline to the centre of the curriculum that offers analogous benefits – computer programming. And unlike Latin, it is anything but ...

Owning a computer once went hand in hand with understanding exactly how it worked. ... Computer programming: Why we should all learn to hack. 22 February 2012. Share Save. Tom Chatfield.

Below, Littman shares five key insights from his new book, Code to Joy: Why Everyone Should Learn a Little Programming. Listen to the audio version—read by Littman himself—in the Next Big Idea ...

“There are students and mentors working together, and they program the robot to do different tasks, from basic to higher levels.” 4. PASSION. Both Blazes and Hounyo pursued programming out of their ...

Computer programming provided a type of creative expression that was hard to find elsewhere. It still does. It would take a decade more for me to take a professional interest in the technology. But to ...

Computer programming is highly specialized work; it can’t be effectively taught in an intensive program. In one sense, the failure of coding bootcamps reflects the near-universal failure of for ...

So why aren’t all programming languages designed this way? “I doubt that most language designers meant for their languages to be hard to understand or use,” Stefik says.

Last night, Georgia Tech announced that it was partnering with Silicon Valley startup Udacity to create a new, online master's degree program in computer science. In higher ed land, this is very ...

Some programming continues to be very textual, but some is becoming more visual, which means the underlying computer language doesn’t matter as much. GUI builders are the easiest places to see this.