I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Why it matters: There's a good chance you cut your coding teeth on BASIC if you took a computer class back in the 20th century. The Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code celebrated its 60th ...

Programs close programSequences of instructions for a computer. are written to solve problems. To solve a problem, a program needs data input and data, or information, output. Data can be input in ...

Students enrolled in classes 6 to 8 at more than 40,000 government-run composite (classes 1 to 8) and upper primary schools (classes 6 to 8) running under the Basic Education Council across Uttar ...

Top institutions like Harvard, Google, MIT, and IIT Bombay are offering free beginner coding courses in 2025. Covering Python, Java, R, C, and even Scratch for school educators, these courses help ...

In the days of yore, becoming a coder involved years of study in college or ­university, or perhaps an intense bootcamp lasting months at a time that drilled participants in the basics of programming.