SAN FRANCISCO — Code.org is getting a $15 million cash infusion from Facebook over the next five years to teach more young women and underrepresented minorities how to code. At Facebook, only 17% of ...

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Hadi Partovi made his fortune as a cofounder of Tellme Networks, sold to Microsoft for some $800 million in 2007, and with smart investments in Dropbox, Facebook and Airbnb. For the past four years, ...

Launched as part of the Hour of Code campaign, the new Music Lab: Jam Session activity empowers students to explore coding through music composition and introduces the concept of AI-generated beats.

Hadi Partovi called out a new episode of the newspaper's "The Daily" podcast and ongoing media reports questioning whether ...

Microsoft and Code.org have partnered to release a new Hour of Code installment based around the popular Minecraft game. Code.org is an organization devoted to introducing programming to students of ...

With 30 million trials of last year’s Minecraft Hour of Code tutorial, Microsoft and Code.org believe the new offering will again introduce tens of millions to coding for the first time SINGAPORE, 16 ...

Code.org thinks that everyone can learn programming logic, even elementary school children. The computer science education nonprofit has teamed up with guest lecturer Mark Zuckerberg to teach ...

Why are we teaching kids to code when they can't even balance a check book? Because the authorities behind the initiative have other intentions. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 ...

Jocks and nerds haven’t always gotten along in years past, but Code.org aims to bring them together for the third annual Hour of Code with a sports-themed coding campaign. The campaign, which kicks ...

Less than a year ago, brothers Hadi Partovi and Ali Partovi launched Code.org to help advocate for computer science in the U.S. and increase participation in STEM education by making these subjects ...

This year has seen the highest increase in the number of U.S. high schools offering a foundational computer science course since 2018, with more than half of U.S. high schools now offering one, but ...