The Science Near Me blog is a partnership between Discover magazine and ScienceNearMe.org. When Jake Baskin attends hands-on coding events in classrooms during Computer Science Week, he’s learned to ...

Computer science is the study of computers and computational systems. Computer scientists use various mathematical algorithms, coding procedures, and their expert programming skills to study computer ...

Coding is the term we use to cover writing in language that is specially designed for computer hardware. Over decades of computer design and use, many kinds of code have emerged as the go-between ...

Maybe it’s a clue that coding is right for you. “A lot of people treat computer science like solving puzzles,” says Paul Gries, an associate professor, teaching stream, in the department of computer ...

The Conference Board of Canada found in 2010 that the proportion of overall graduates with degrees in math, science, computer science and engineering disciplines was 21.2 per cent, a number that ...

Of the 28 people who graduated from the inaugural workshop in 2016, more than half were women, she said. Hoseyni helps out as a teaching assistant and sees her job as part instructor, part motivator. ...

And universities can help. We must re-humanise coding and put the mutuality and care back into it. Confusing the delightful, mind-expanding and still wide-open art of computer programming with rather ...

The computer science GCSE requires pupils to be proficient programmers to be successful. This has meant teachers now have to spend a great deal of time on programming in the year proceeding GCSE ...