SAN FRANCISCO — Code.org is getting a $15 million cash infusion from Facebook over the next five years to teach more young women and underrepresented minorities how to code. At Facebook, only 17% of ...

Hadi Partovi made his fortune as a cofounder of Tellme Networks, sold to Microsoft for some $800 million in 2007, and with smart investments in Dropbox, Facebook and Airbnb. For the past four years, ...

This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. by Kurt Schlosser on Mar 4 ...

Launched as part of the Hour of Code campaign, the new Music Lab: Jam Session activity empowers students to explore coding through music composition and introduces the concept of AI-generated beats.

Ever wondered what, exactly, an IP address is, or how wireless internet works? Code.org, a nonprofit that focuses on expanding access to computer science courses, wants to help: The organization ...

Microsoft and Code.org have partnered to release a new Hour of Code installment based around the popular Minecraft game. Code.org is an organization devoted to introducing programming to students of ...

Hadi Partovi called out a new episode of the newspaper’s “The Daily” podcast and ongoing media reports questioning whether computer science grads have been sold an empty promise about plentiful jobs ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Code.org nonprofit trains teachers on how to teach computer science lessons to students from kindergarten ...

With 30 million trials of last year’s Minecraft Hour of Code tutorial, Microsoft and Code.org believe the new offering will again introduce tens of millions to coding for the first time SINGAPORE, 16 ...

Amazon announced a $15 million donation from its Amazon Future Engineer program to nonprofit Code.org to support the development and launch of a new equity-minded Advanced Placement computer science ...

This year has seen the highest increase in the number of U.S. high schools offering a foundational computer science course since 2018, with more than half of U.S. high schools now offering one, but ...