The classes include various computer skills including game development, website development, and programming languages including Python and Java Click here to view available Code Club programs.

Only a quarter of U.S. K-12 schools offer some kind of computer programming class, and only 28 states even allow computer science to count toward the requirements for graduation.

Students in Mike Reilly’s computer programming classes could be helping to bust the stereotype of the computer nerd hunched over a keyboard, writing programs that crunch numbers and sort lists.

These universities, all ranking much higher than UChicago in terms of their computer science programs, teach theoretical computer science and useful programming skills. Career-wise, students who have ...

At Santa Barbara High School, students have the option to get a fine art credit from a computer programming class. At a charter high school in San Diego, students use a programming language ...

PHOENIX (FOX 10) - Getting kids interested in computer coding at a young age could help them with a number of skills in their adult lives.

Though most schools across the state don’t offer any computer programming classes, Simsbury High offers one AP level class and one Introduction level class, Orsene said.

“Our projection here is ambitious,” Dorn said. A report using 2013-14 data indicated that only one in six Nebraska high schools provided a class in computer programming at that time.