The program launched in 2013 when groups like Girls Who Code and Black Girls Code were part of a push in the tech industry to close the gender equity gap. Danny Rojas said that surge was important, ...

Girls Who Code is a national program that encourages young women to pursue skills in computer science. Not only can young women in middle and high school learn programs like Python to help them code, ...

Code Along Jr. is an outgrowth of Black Girls Code's Code Along program and is aimed at young coders ages 7 to 10. Black Girls Code recently continued its partnership with GoldieBlox in their shared ...

When a company like Microsoft needs to fix a security flaw in one of its products, the process is normally straightforward: determine where the bug lies, change the program’s source code to fix the ...

Inside the Code Next lab in Oakland, California. OAKLAND, Calif. — The lab starts filling up after school lets out. Students trickle in. They help themselves to a snack — today it’s tacos — and chat ...

The Last Mile, a prison rehabilitation program based in San Quentin, California, offers prisoners free training on how to code. This equips them with the training they need to get a job more easily ...

The idea of learning to code while she was incarcerated at the Indiana Women’s Prison was intriguing to Ashley Wallace. She had already done a food safety course and a re-entry program. She saw coding ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Paul-Smith Goodson is an analyst covering quantum computing and AI. Computer scientists have long toyed with the idea of creating ...

A new afterschool program in Durham is offering children a chance to learn profitable and in-demand coding skills for future careers. Two out of three STEM jobs involve software development, so ...