Washington teacher Tammie Schrader is so enthusiastic about computer games in education that she thinks they can be used to teach programming skills that lead to college — starting in middle school.

It’s hard to believe that computer users will put up $30 or $40 for a program that does absolutely nothing, but After Dark, from Berkeley Systems, does nothing with such elan that the price seems ...

With a severe shortage of college-trained IT workers across the U.S., what’s it going to take to get more students to pursue computer science studies? Two researchers think they have an answer: ...

The machines are just about to take over the planet now that computer scientist Tom Murphy has presented a paper on the possibility of video games being beaten by robots. It's not quite that simple, ...

In honor of Computer Science Education Week, I am doing a series about Computer Science. The first post was about how I got into the field. Today's topic is "programming for fun." Maybe you're in a ...

KALAMAZOO, MI -- Many schools have all-star athletes. The Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center has all-star coders. Shannon Houtrouw, a computer science teacher at the enrichment center, has been ...

Pick a lane. I don't know, only you can say what is fun for you. I found LISP incredibly appealing once I understood how it worked, way back in university. Same goes for Haskell (except I still don't ...

A 2022 report by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition ( advocacy.code.org/stateofcs) ranked Minnesota dead last in the percentage of high schools offering computer science ...