(CBS) --Almost everything we use requires computer coding. Our cell phones, laptops, cars, planes, security systems and more operate, in part, because of these written codes. Experts say the ...

In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, a nationwide computer science immersion program sets up shop at a couple Virginia elementary schools. The NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs has the story.

Just nine states allow computer courses to count toward a high school student’s math or science requirements. That’s not to say computer-science-related classes are not growing.

Youth in Holyoke, Massachusetts are coding computers and rowing on the Connecticut River in a summer camp that runs from July 24 to Aug. 4, 2017 and combines programming and watersports.

This week, thousands of events around the world are encouraging computer-coding literacy. "Coding is really about creative self-expression and storytelling," says Mitchel Resnick of MIT's Media Lab.