The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

The awesome Digirule 2U is a small 8-bit programmable binary computer created by developer Bradley Slattery. Launched via Kickstarter this month, the project is coming to the end of its campaign with ...

Computers don’t simply "understand" code in the way humans do. They rely on a highly sophisticated series of steps to interpret, compile, and execute the instructions provided by code. In this video, ...

Coding is the language that computers understand. Did you know, Microsoft Windows has over 50 million lines of code? Or that Google adds lines of coding to its search engine every day? We learn about ...

I’VE been using computers for decades now. It’s probably time I taught myself how to program one, but first I have to find the answer to a simple question. There are thousands of programming languages ...

In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, a nationwide computer science immersion program sets up shop at a couple Virginia elementary schools. The NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs has the story.