A generation of British schoolchildren risks being left behind in an analogue world unless they learn computer programming skills, a group of some of the UK's leading digital entrepreneurs warn today.

Owning a computer once went hand in hand with understanding exactly how it worked. That may have changed but Tom Chatfield says it's time to reclaim the past. There is an old joke amongst computer ...

Children have been getting the chance to learn about computer coding at CBBC Live in Leeds. Coding is when you give a sequence of instructions to a computer so you can make it do what you want to do.

Parts of the brain are "rewired" when people learn computer programming, according to new research. Scientists watched university students’ brains as they learned to code. The team used functional ...

Swayed by tech evangelists, the UK government has put programming on the curriculum. But will kids really be left behind without it? Behind the sliding glass door of Makers Academy in Shoreditch, east ...

A new study tested first-time computer code learners to see what skills predicted their success. They found that language abilities were more important than mathematical acumen. What does it take to ...

From September, computer coding will be taught in schools across England to children aged five and over. This trailblazing education policy could spark a skills revolution and help get to grips with ...

It’s time women said to the tech industry: ‘It’s not me, it’s you.’ And universities can help by not confusing the art of computer programming with rather dull ‘careers in coding’ Mary-Ann Russon, a ...

Despite computing education in UK schools going through a massive revolution over the past few years to try and make it more relevant to our increasingly tech-driven lives, the new GCSE in computer ...