Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

For 18-year-old Mohammad Shirmohammadi, accessibility cuts both ways. A senior at Arcadia High School in Southern California near Pasadena, “Mo,” as he’s known to family and friends, is the founder ...

Amy Ko is a professor of computer science and director of the Code and Cognition Lab at the Information School at the University of Washington in Seattle. I had many exciting plans for the end of my ...

The Peoria Unified School District governing board rejected a free computer science training program because of concerns that its website mentions "diversity, equity and inclusion" and that the ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of the ...