Technical

Hour of Code begins in Brooklyn today. Here’s how local students are getting involved

Here’s the idea: for at least one hour this year, each student in school in Brooklyn learns how to code. They may not become web developers, and they may not develop a love of computers, but at least ...
American Libraries

Hour of Code $500 Mini-Grants Available

In advance of Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek, December 3–9), an annual event to get students excited about coding, the American Library Association (ALA) is opening a call for applications ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Hour of Code connects computer scientists with young students

Changing that is the idea behind Hour of Code, a global campaign that aims to get everyone, kids to adults, to try computer coding for an hour. Supporting such efforts is Argonne National Laboratory, ...
1011 Now

Hour of Code teaches kids lifelong skills

Learning to speak the language of computers was the focus at Saturday's One Hour of Code, held at Innovation Campus.Coding and computer science knowledge are skills that many parents and teachers ...
ZDNet

Hour of Code: More than 600 million lines of code and counting

Computer science has been called the new literacy for the 21st century. And yet, computer science education is on the decline in the U.S., where only 5 percent of students learn how to program. The ...
Technical

Hour of Code is offering computer science education to Baltimore city students all week

Volunteers are offering an introduction to coding in classrooms inside Baltimore city schools this week, helping 10,000 students get experience building with tech tools. It’s part of Hour of Code, a ...