More than a quarter of all computer programming jobs have vanished in the past two years, the worst downturn that industry has ever seen. Things are sufficiently abysmal that computer programming ...

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A new afterschool program in Durham is offering children a chance to learn profitable and in-demand coding skills for future careers. Two out of three STEM jobs involve software development, so ...

For two weeks, eight teens participated in Layton Boulevard West's Code Academy, a pilot computer programming class that is teaching them skills they can parlay into careers in an increasingly ...

Twenty-six-year-old Blisha Magar is one of 20 refugees working away in a classroom during a free computer coding boot camp called Refcode. The program, led by software engineers, teaches refugees tech ...

Jared Flores loved the two weeks he spent this summer at a computer coding school where he programmed a hand-crafted robot that could steer itself through a maze. Aside from the knowledge he gained, ...

About 60 students took part in the debut of a youth-led coding competition at the Arlington Career Center this weekend. “We had to communicate with many people — it was quite an effort,” said Nate ...

I’m interested in getting a job as a programmer, but I don’t have any formal training. I heard boot camps can get me into a job in just a couple of months. They seem intense and expensive, though. Are ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

More young students of today will be the computer science leaders of tomorrow. Even now, young students learn "coding language" and how to use it to create new programs. More young students of today ...

We all know that the job market can be cutthroat, and these days young people are doing whatever it takes to get a leg up on the competition. But this new (and very expensive) trend is how young ...