One of the best schools in the world to study computer game design started out as a private company. DigiPen Institute of Technology, a for-profit school with 1,200 students in Redmond, WA, was ...

Outside schools, coding camps and after-school computer-programming classes have become increasingly common, with children as young as 5 or 6 participating. There are even coding-themed birthday ...

Computer-game programming is an estimated $20 billion industry predicted to grow to a $100 billion industry within a decade. Facts like these paint an electronic picture of Americans with plenty of ...

Learning programming introduces students to solving problems, designing applications, and making connections online. We are witnessing a remarkable comeback of computer programming in schools. In ...

Why High Schools Should Treat Computer Programming Like Algebra And 5 other cool ideas from The Atlantic's Technologies In Education Forum. By Jordan Weissmann May 15, 2013 ...

Although programming jobs are growing at double the pace of other jobs, computer programming is declining in our education system.

PARIS—It’s a fortuitous day to be sitting in a padded geodesic workbooth at 42, the tuition-free computer programming school created and funded by French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel. I’m ...

They’ve been programming games thanks to instruction from Code in the Schools, a two-month-old nonprofit headed by husband-wife team Michael and Gretchen LeGrand. Essentially, it’s Baltimore’s version ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University are trying to uncover the secrets of building engaging educational games by studying the ways kids play a new 3-D game that teaches basic programming ...