Tech heavyweights attempt to make writing code look fun and simple in a new video aimed at the masses ...

Tens of millions of students will take part in the Hour of Coding event -- a global movement to teach young children about computer programming.

Meta Platforms on Thursday said it would release an artificial intelligence (AI) model designed to assist in writing computer code, furthering its push into the new technology.

The process of writing computer programs is known as coding. Until recently, most computer code was written, at least originally, by human beings.