Computer programmers and software engineers are urging that students, even as early as elementary school, learn how to design and write source code for computers.

Though coder Jeff Atwood thinks coding isn't for non-computer geeks, we can think of a lot of reasons normals should learn computer language.

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.

A movement by parents and lawmakers to get computer coding to count toward foreign language credits has hit a snag — but advocates aren't giving up.

Why? Because knowing how to code today does not mean you will know how to code tomorrow. Programming languages change all the time. Teaching only coding really isn’t enough to future-proof young ...