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How Scratch and Minecraft Developers Hope to Keep Kids Coding For Life | EdSurge News
Coding curricula is sweeping into classrooms across the country, thanks to programs such as Code.org. According to the Education Commission of States, about 20 states now require that districts allow students to apply specified computer science courses toward completion of … Continue reading
Coding While Black: Hacking The Future Of The Tech Industry : Code Switch : NPR
At Tech Square Labs in midtown Atlanta, you’ll find glass walls and high ceilings. It follows the typical design trends of today’s “hip” innovation centers and co-working office spaces. It’s also where 14 low-income African-American students are learning Java as … Continue reading
The Case for Improving U.S. Computer Science Education | ITIF
Despite the growing use of computers and software in every facet of our economy, not until recently has computer science education begun to gain traction in American school systems. The current focus on improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) … Continue reading
JavaScript Conquered the Web. Now It’s Taking Over the Desktop | WIRED
JAVASCRIPT WAS ORIGINALLY created in 1995 to give web pages a little more pep than the tag could provide. Today it has far more powerful uses. Companies like Google and Facebook build complex, desktop-like web applications with JavaScript; since the … Continue reading
Oracle bolsters computer science education | eSchool News
Part of $3.3 billion annual investment to advance computer science education and increase diversity in technology fields globally In conjunction with The White House Science Fair 2016, Oracle and The White House recently announced Oracle’s plan to invest $200 million … Continue reading
You Can Solve Quantum Mechanics’ Classic Particle in a Box Problem With Code | WIRED
RHETT ALLAIN SCIENCE 03.25.16. 2:31 PM. HUMANS HAVE PROBLEMS with quantum mechanics. We have excellent intuition about the motion of a tennis ball tossed in the air, but what about an electron trapped in a box? The tendency is to use … Continue reading
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Teaching Bronx Students the Language of Computers – The New York Times
The website allows users to post videos of police abuses, track them on an interactive map and even play a game in which the goal is to avoid gunfire from police officers. Called Protect & Swerve, the website and companion … Continue reading
Should Computer Education Cover More Than Just Coding? : NPR Ed : NPR
President Obama wants kids to learn to code. So much so, he’s pledged billions of dollars to teach them.”Now we have to make sure all our kids are equipped for the jobs of the future – which means not just … Continue reading
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Why Use a Paintbrush When You Can Make Mind-Bending Art With Code? | WIRED
COMPUTER CODE UNDERPINS many aspect of our lives. Usually we know exactly what we want that code to do—but what if we didn’t? This is the question posed by Los Angeles software artist Casey Reas, who employs code to form abstract, bewildering, and … Continue reading
Computer Science For All | whitehouse.gov
Computer Science for All is the President’s bold new initiative to empower all American students from kindergarten through high school learn computer science and be equipped with the computational thinking skills they need to be creators in the digital economy, not … Continue reading