Teaching children to code with computers is only part of the challenge to preparing people for a career in the IT industry. But it can also do more harm that good in some cases.

Children use the Scratch code-building program to animate figures on an interactive white board at De Beauvoir school Credit: Photo: Maja Daniels It is 3.31pm and the bell has just rung to signal ...

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Vancouver web developer Melody Ma was an enthusiastic supporter of the B.C. government's decision to add computer coding to the provincial school curriculum. She organized last month's Hour of ...

“I got into it when I was 11. I was just doing math in my school’s computer lab and then I went to the computer science page and I tried it out,” said Grade 8 Linden Meadows student Zach Lowden.

The B.C. government unveiled plans Monday to introduce computer coding in its school curriculum, addressing a chronic skills shortage in one of the few areas of the Canadian economy that is doing ...

The BBC micro:bit is a pocket-sized code-able computer with a lot of features including an LED light display, buttons, sensors and a couple of input devices like a microphone.The micro:bit ...

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