Researchers have demonstrated that, for a few specific tasks, it's possible to write computer programs using ordinary language rather than special-purpose programming languages. The work may be of ...

Fresh off the wild success of its first afterschool program, a girls-only science and math club, the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium is offering a second one — this one for boys, to… ...

Tens of millions of students will take part in the Hour of Coding event -- a global movement to teach young children about computer programming.

President Barack Obama, to kick off the annual Computer Science Education Week, has become the first US president (at least as far as we know) to write a computer program. While this might not ...

As educators who teach programming, we want to help students in fields other than computer science achieve their goals. But learning how to program well enough to write finished programs can be ...

The “Beyond the Hour: Kids Who Code” program, part of an international effort to teach children how to write computer code.

A pilot scheme will be launched in schools later this year to shift the emphasis in favour of teaching pupils to design their own computer software. If successful, it will lead to a new GCSE and A ...

Writing computer code is helpful for people in many disciplines, but learning to program is hard. Large language models can help nonprogrammers skip the difficult details.