For years now, that’s been a hugely popular stance. It’s led to educational initiatives as effortless sounding as the Hour of Code (offered by Code.org) and as obviously ambitious as Code Year ...

Employees in office settings, and on the road as well, must possess basic computer competency to perform their job duties. It is especially important for small businesses to hire office staff who are ...

A student completes the Minecraft-themed coding tutorial that Microsoft built with Code.org. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft wants to turn kids’ love of Minecraft into a love of computer programming ...

This series of columns on basic computing skills was inspired by a friend who, while smart in every way, was unable to perform the simple task of copying a file on her computer from one folder to ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with intuitive ...

Last week's column detailing nine things you need to know to be computer literate drew a great response. They reinforced the column's premise that a lot of people know how to do just what they need to ...

Back in the early 1960s, programming for computers was a job that was just for computer scientists. That changed 50 years ago today with the introduction of BASIC, a computer language that was created ...