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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 ...
High school students interested in learning to code might be intimidated by the prospect of learning computer programming. This makes sense, given that even basic HTML/CSS reads like a foreign ...
With as fast moving as technology is these days, coding has become almost as essential to a child’s education as math and reading. Unfortunately, not every school is teaching computer programming just ...
Last summer, Chandra Floyd came to the realization that her dreams carried more weight than the fear of failure. She quit her job as a special events manager at the Detroit Institute of Arts after 11 ...
One of the hottest Stanford CS courses this semester embraces rather than bans AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude.
It’s a Sunday morning at East Dulwich Picturehouse in South London, and a group of three- and four-year-old children is playing in a backroom. But not with cars or dolls. Instead, they are learning ...
“You don’t need to go to grad school. Save your money. I’ll teach you how to code.” Seven years ago, in a bar near downtown Los Angeles, I was sharing a drink with a new friend. We had met on a travel ...
As someone who chats with startup founders for a living, I've always admired the "builders." I have a lot of respect for their technical ability to dream up an idea and code it into existence, but ...
For 48 hours on one recent weekend, 27 teenagers from Long Island high schools sequestered themselves at offices in Westbury. They stayed overnight in sleeping bags and immersed themselves in learning ...