That cultural resilience is a good thing, too, because I can’t be the only one finding that the more I use AI, the more I appreciate the human element of programming—the spirit, if you will.

This year, Bers was named a 2022 AERA Fellow by the American Educational Research Association, and she published her new book Beyond Coding: How Children Learn Human Values through Programming.

Meet Roslyn Scott and Dalton Scott, a mother and son team who just demoed a neat idea for making code more accessible, here at the Disrupt London 2015 hackathon. Their hack, called the Human Code ...

Depending on the task's difficulty, the programming language used, and other factors, the AI's success ranged from as low as 0.66 percent to as high as 89 percent.

AI tools quickly found applications in coding, and now a prominent developer is doubling down with an AI agent that does most of the work of a real human software developer.

In 2022, coding and computational thinking are increasingly important tools that allow kids to engage with a high-tech society and each other, and to realize their own potential. Marina Umaschi Bers, ...