Will Ada Lovelace and Ayanna Howard ever be talked about in schools alongside Steve Jobs and Bill Gates? A nonprofit called Girls Who Code wants to make it happen. The organization, which works to ...

Why is learning to code a big deal? Here's one reason: In 2015, as many as 7 million job openings were in occupations that required coding skills, reported Burning Glass, a job-market analytics firm.

Minecraft, which innocently started out as a vast open-world block-based game, is probably the closest thing to crack cocaine for kids. Its popularity with the grade school set is likely what helped ...

In his first lesson in computer coding, Bozeman third-grader Carter Chapo learned how to give simple directions to move a figure on a laptop computer screen through a staircase maze. “Woo hoo! I ...