While coding is a good start, school districts need to develop broader computer science initiatives to grow 21st century–ready learners. Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in ...

When Emily Lockwood was at primary school, she would sit in a computer lab and learn how to type on a keyboard, make a presentation or save a file. But for her two children, there are no such classes.

Thomas E. Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to easily operate early ...

While Dartmouth BASIC was a success in the late 60s and early 70s the real boom years for BASIC were the late 70s when the personal computer posed an interesting problem for language designers. The ...

At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. By Kenneth R. Rosen See more ...