Student demand for computer science courses is outstripping the supply of professors, creating a student divide of computing haves and have-nots.

Computer coding classes: Many educators want to turn coding into a new kind of literacy — a fundamental applied skill, a mode of inquiry and expression — that everybody should know.

Half of the high schools in the Capital Region do not offer any computer science courses, according to a report that called for more “computational thinking” at all grade levels.

A legislative mandate would do what decades-long efforts have failed to do: force districts to make computer science a priority by offering the class.

Guidelines for Introductory Course Selection Note that introductory computer science classes regularly fill to capacity, and registration priority is given to first years. You are encouraged to take ...

In 2011, trawling YouTube for other course material, Guimaraes clicked on a lecture from Harvard’s introductory computer-science class, CS50, which was taught by a young professor named David Malan.

One of the two AP computer science classes has undergone changes to more closely mirror introductory college courses.