Indeed, many students end up barely able to write small functions – short, discrete pieces of code – let alone write a full program that can help make their lives better.

According to Huang, writing and communicating computer code capable of circumventing technological protection measures qualifies as First Amendment protected speech.

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

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

Algorithm isn’t a word most kindergartners toss around. But students at St. Francis Xavier School in La Grange had no trouble with pronunciation, or rattling off its meaning, doing something … ...

Writing Code Has Become Self-Expression Jeannette M. Wing is the President's professor of computer science and the head of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University.