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For two weeks, eight teens participated in Layton Boulevard West's Code Academy, a pilot computer programming class that is teaching them skills they can parlay into careers in an increasingly ...

An Eastside High School student prepares for her digital design class. Students across the state may soon be able to learn how to code computer programs if the Senate passes a bill that gives students ...

Move over Spanish, French and Latin. Computer coding could be on the way. A Senate committee Thursday approved a bill aimed at allowing high-school students to take computer-coding classes as an ...

Back when Grant Hosford's older daughter was in first grade, she signed up for an extracurricular class, building robots with a programmable Lego toy called Mindstorms. Hosford, a dot-com entrepreneur ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) - The Department of Corrections is looking at adding computer programming classes to state prison education programs to improve inmates’ chances of getting jobs when they finish ...

Computer coding could soon be coming to a school near you. The Duval County School Board will vote next month on whether to change Andrew Jackson High into a technology magnet, which would offer ...

TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) -- Computer coding could be the next option for students wanting to take a language class. A Senate committee Thursday approved a bill aimed at allowing high-school students ...

At Santa Barbara High School, students have the option to get a fine art credit from a computer programming class. At a charter high school in San Diego, students use a programming language designed ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – High school students in Florida could soon be able to count computer coding classes as credits for a foreign language. The Florida Senate passed the legislation 35-5 on ...

Learning to code doesn’t require new brain systems—it builds on the ones we already use for logic and reasoning.