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.

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE Seattle based computer education nonprofit Code.org is teaming with the ...

Code.org’s Hardi Partovi wants every student to have access to computer-science classes. “That would make an enormous difference in our country’s ability to compete," he says.

Code.org says the new videos are intended to be used in classrooms across the country or just by anyone who wants a clear explanation of Internet operations.

What happens here matters everywhere. by Taylor Soper on May 14, 2015 at 4:34 pm May 14, 2015 at 4:34 pm Code.org wants more high schools to offer computer science courses, and now it’s getting help ...

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 ...

The popular block-building-sandbox game is creeping into the third annual Hour of Code, a worldwide campaign to spark students' interest in programming. CNET freelancer Anthony Domanico is passionate ...

When you think about hackathons and coders building something quick and dirty, you might envision a dark dorm room at Harvard filled with pizza boxes and empty Red Bull cans. That’s because the only ...

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 ...

Code.org is getting $12 million in philanthropic funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other donors like auditor PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers), as first reported by the Seattle Times ...

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 ...

America wants you to learn how to code. While Barack Obama didn’t pull out an Uncle Sam-style finger point, he certainly addressed coding as something of a civic duty in a YouTube video released this ...