writing words won out over writing code. Though I did find it fascinating to learn to think the way computers do, there seemed to be something fundamentally backward about programming a computer ...

It was a very simple program—all it does is draw a square on a screen—but that's the point, says Hadi Partovi, co-founder Code.org, an organization that promotes computer science education.

learning to code and eventually pursuing careers in computer science are certainly pathways that should be open to high-school students. My primary objection to this particular programming push ...

These languages are much simpler than English but are still vastly more complex than the computer can understand. Whether code is written in C++ or Chicken, once the coder runs the program ...