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 ...
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 ...
PBS

Students Learn Programming During Hour of Code

Hour of Code teaches students how to create their own programs, like video games. More than 1,000 New Jersey schools participated in Hour of Code, which teaches students how to create their own ...
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 ...
Crain's Detroit

Hour of Code

Get a taste of programming at a free Hour of Code workshop at TechTown. Led by Tech Elevator's Chief Academic Officer David Wintrich, the hour of code workshop will teach basic coding concepts. Also ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 Journal

Minecraft, Code.org Releasing New Hour of Code Tutorial

On Nov. 1, Microsoft will be releasing its newest Minecraft Hour of Code tutorial, which, according to a recent announcement, could be "possibly the most adventurous tutorial yet." The company has ...
BizTimes

Local students experience ‘10,300 hours of code’

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Milwaukee-area students were taught 10,300 hours of code as a ...
1011 Now

Hour of Code returns to in-person event

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - It was Lincoln’s first in-person Hour of Code event since 2019, and judging by the amount of curious squints and smiles, Lincoln’s students have been eager to get back to it. “I ...