Seattle-based computer science education nonprofit Code.org is helping to launch TeachAI, a new effort aimed at guiding governments and educators on teaching with and about artificial intelligence.

Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi. (Code.org Photo) Backed by nearly $60 million in funding from the likes of Microsoft, Amazon, Google and others, Code.org isn’t resting.

Code.org, the non-profit dedicated to encouraging women and ethnic minorities to take up coding has managed to combine popular culture and computer programming into a fun, easy-to-digest package.

The way we mix languages and speech patterns is an apt metaphor for the way race, ethnicity and culture intersect in our lives. Introducing our new blog, Code Switch.

At age 10, I hadn't yet mastered an important tool to solve my struggles: code-switching. For linguists, code-switching describes the simple act of switching between two languages in a conversation.

In Code.org’s play lab, for example, girls tend to create apps that are story oriented and have a narrative. Rarely do they include any scoring.