Seventh-graders Jason Tran, left, and David Sushkov work out a problem with a kid-friendly coding program in their computer science class at Mills Middle School in Folsom Cordova Unified School ...

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The program started with a few kids from the Sunday school at his church. But after a few years, word got around about the computer programming classes Vic Wintriss was teaching to kids, and his ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- When most of us were in school, we took science classes like biology and chemistry, but computer science may be even more important for today's kids. Yet nearly 90% of ...

ST. PAUL - Obi Abulu loves computers. "He learned to click a mouse before he learned to write," says Attracta Abulu, the Woodbury seventh-grader's mother. But when it came to learning more about how ...

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 ...

PHOENIX (FOX 10) - Getting kids interested in computer coding at a young age could help them with a number of skills in their adult lives. You're probably used to seeing kids using technology, but ...

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 ...

Dozens of Long Island school districts are asking students to put down their pencils and pick up their keyboards to learn the tech-savvy skills of computer programming. About 30 Long Island school ...

On Feb. 24, the Florida Senate passed SB 468, a bill that would allow high school students to fulfill existing foreign language requirements with computer coding courses. A similar bill, HB 887, is up ...

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 ...

The students in Kirsten Lunzer's fourth-grade class watch as Codey the Troll crosses their computer screen, guided by the program they wrote to leap obstacles and collect blue jelly beans. These ...