One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like ...

The world is much different than when we were growing up. Teaching coding to kids was something very few people thought about. But today, parents and teachers know that teaching kids to code has lots ...

You might think coding is a novel trend that doesn’t have other applications beyond programming, but coding offers many connections to multiple subjects, with the added benefit of reinforcing ...

Being able to recall facts may help you look good in front of your friends during trivia night, but memorizing content of the past has become largely irrelevant in today’s modern society. When it ...

Aidan McGowan explains how converting practical coding ‘labs’ into a series of short videos taking students through the problems step-by-step has improved learning outcomes The 1980s band The Buggles ...

Using age-appropriate coding toys has a significant, positive impact on preschoolers’ math abilities, according to the findings of a pilot study that will be discussed at the 2022 International ...

Technology is a sector that lends itself easily to continuous upskilling. But amid the coronavirus pandemic, tech education programs are seeing more interest than ever, as current technologists find ...

Professor Jean Greyling is head of department at Nelson Mandela University Computing Sciences and can be reached at jean.greyling@mandela.ac.za. During his State of the Nation Address in February 2020 ...

As a primary school student in the late 1980s, I taught myself to code, hunched over an old orange-screen computer, mesmerised by the magic of making machines obey my commands. By secondary school, ...