Students type on Apple Inc. laptop computers during a coding class at the First Code Academy in Hong Kong, China, on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. About 2,500 students have taken courses at the First Code ...

Back when Grant Hosford's older daughter was in first grade, she signed up for an extracurricular class, building robots with a programmable Lego toy called Mindstorms. Hosford, a dot-com entrepreneur ...

Why it matters: There's a good chance you cut your coding teeth on BASIC if you took a computer class back in the 20th century. The Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code celebrated its 60th ...