Dr. Egginton is a professor of the humanities. Maryland’s legislature is considering a bill to allow computer coding courses to fulfill the foreign language graduation requirement for high school.

Why language isn't computer code The differences between formal and natural languages are as big as the similarities ...

Neuroscientists have found reading computer code does not rely on the regions of the brain involved in language processing. Instead, it activates the 'multiple demand network,' which is also ...

When students in Florida choose which foreign language to study in high school, they might soon have an unusual choice to make: French, Spanish, or computer code?

An innovative, but contentious, proposal to let Florida high school students count computer coding courses toward foreign language credits is back before the Legislature this year. Passionate ...

How Coding Is More Than Just Computer Languages: Let's Reveal When people think of coding, they often picture rows of text on a computer screen filled with complex symbols and numbers.

How does the brain interpret computer languages? Neuroscientists detect a distinct brain network that grows stronger with practice.

Computer coding ability has gotten especially hip recently. People who can’t code revere it as 21st century sorcery, while those who do it professionally are often driven to fits by it. And it ...