Girls Who Code: Teaching computer programming to young women 04:20. President Obama was the first Commander-in-Chief to write a line of computer code, after learning the basics of JavaScript on ...

With names such as Hackbright Academy, Girl Develop It, Black Girls Code and Girls Teaching Girls to Code, these groups try to present a more-exciting image of computer science.

If girls feel that they can belong in computer science classrooms, then – our findings show – they’ll be more likely to give it a fair shot. When girls feel that they belong, it can ...

When I started teaching computer science at Punahou School, there were two computer science classes: an Intro and an AP course, mostly attended by boys.Occasionally, a girl would enroll in the ...

With their LInkitz toy for girls, veterans of MIT and Intel intend to get even a 4-year-old excited about engineering. For Lyssa Neel, a startup world veteran and only the 10th woman to earn a PhD ...

Four years ago, boys outnumbered girls 4-to-1 in Duval County high school computer classes. Today those classes have three boys for every two girls, a nearly 60-40 ratio. Clearly, more girls are co… ...

Diana Navarro loves to code, and she's not afraid to admit it. But the 18-year-old Rutgers University computer science major knows she's an anomaly: Writing software to run computer programs in ...

The stars may very well be aligning for proponents of K-12 computer science education. At least that was the overarching sentiment at a panel held this morning at the Google offices here and co ...

Less than one percent of high school girls think of computer science as part of their future, even though it's one of the fastest-growing fields in the United States today.

Diana Navarro loves to code, and she's not afraid to admit it. But the 18-year-old Rutgers University computer science major knows she's an anomaly: Writing software to run computer programs in ...