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 ...

Five-year-olds will learn about fractions and computer programming in the revised national curriculum for children from five-to-16. ICT will be replaced with computer programming, so that children ...

A team of researchers, faculty and students from Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMUQ) recently introduced Alice Middle East, a 3D interactive educational animation software. The software aims to ...

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 ...

The ever-growing use of technology in society makes it clear that computer programming may be a valuable skill. But how do our brains learn to code? Cultural skills, like reading and math, typically ...

Forget about Sudoku, crosswords, puzzles or Rubik’s cube. Computer programming is still the ultimate mind game. Writing computer programmes, or at least knowing how to, matters a lot. Today more than ...

The Raspberry Pi programming language, called Python, has overtaken French as the most popular language taught in primary schools, according to a survey of school pupils and parents. Most significant ...

A pupil from Thornhill Primary in London testing new software at BETT Information and communications technology (ICT) teachers say plans to shake up the curriculum in England are "exciting" but ...