Last summer, Chandra Floyd came to the realization that her dreams carried more weight than the fear of failure. She quit her job as a special events manager at the Detroit Institute of Arts after 11 ...

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“You don’t need to go to grad school. Save your money. I’ll teach you how to code.” Seven years ago, in a bar near downtown Los Angeles, I was sharing a drink with a new friend. We had met on a travel ...

PHOENIX — Apple chose Mesa Community College as one of six community colleges in the U.S. last year to offer its Everyone Can Code program. Now, after producing 16 graduates, the school plans to ...

At California’s San Quentin prison, inmates who never even used a computer before are learning software development and planning their apps. Like everyone else in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jason ...

Of all the youth extracurricular activities, dancing and coding are increasingly common. But have you ever seen a class that combines the two? The West Park Cultural Center is exercising adolescent ...

For 48 hours on one recent weekend, 27 teenagers from Long Island high schools sequestered themselves at offices in Westbury. They stayed overnight in sleeping bags and immersed themselves in learning ...