Learning how to code will allow you to do everything from build complex apps to make your smart lights flash when you receive an email. Here's our guide on how to get started.

Computer programmers and software engineers are urging that students, even as early as elementary school, learn how to design and write source code for computers.

Computer programming skills are some of the most in-demand job skills that one can learn, with demand for software engineers expected to grow by 17% over the next decade (significantly higher than ...

Vibe coding, or coding with AI, is growing in popularity, but engineers say you have to actually know how to code to do it well.

Learning to code, he says, does have valuable benefits. You'll learn how to build apps and troubleshoot technology, and it can open career doors. However, programming is just a very small part of ...

If you want to work in computer science, five coding languages to learn include Python, C++, Java, JavasScript and SQL.

Computer programmers are urging that K-12 students be introduced to computer coding—designing and writing source code for computers—early in their school careers, due to a growing scarcity of ...

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.

Mitch Resnick at the MIT Media Lab helped create Scratch and ScratchJr., computer languages designed expressly to introduce children to programming. "Coding is not just a set of technical skills ...

Teachers are often called upon to answer this question about an academic subject, and computer science instructors may face this demand more frequently than most. Learning to write lines of code can ...