Encouraging students to pursue higher-level science, technology, engineering, and math courses requires deliberate planning, especially for those students historically underrepresented in those fields ...

Colleges are adding degree programs in this emerging field.

Hiring for entry-level software developers has slowed, and college enrollment in computer science is declining ...

Amazon is making a $15 million donation to Code.org to help the Seattle nonprofit launch a new Advanced Placement computer science programming course aimed at underrepresented groups of students. The ...

In a bid to engage more U.S. high school students in computer science, the College Board introduced a new Advanced Placement (AP) course in 2016: Computer Science Principles, which explores a range of ...

An introduction to programming using MATLAB. Topics include MATLAB interactive environment, programming basics, MATLAB scripts, functions, vectors, matrices, data analysis, and graphic visualization.

Lured by the prospect of high-salary, high-status jobs, college students are rushing in record numbers to study computer science. Now, if only they could get a seat in class. On campuses across the ...

At far too many institutions today, students who are not computer science majors encounter severe enrollment caps and watered-down or limited courses, writes Robert Sedgewick. Every college student ...

Merging the digital and physical worlds, the technologies of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) offer immersive ways of experiencing and interacting with digital content. Jipeng Sun, a ...

U.S. high schools got a high-tech update this past school year. Not by federal fiat or by state law, but largely at the hand of independent nonprofits, including one founded by twin brothers less than ...

As automatic decision-making systems are integrated into the judicial system and workplace, people could potentially be sent to prison or fired, in part, by automated forces. Without people in the ...

A Stanford economist says computer science enrollment fell for the first time in roughly two decades. Jacob Light's study ...