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Experimenting with AI-Assisted Coding

In the Applied AI for Software Development course launched by Hamilton Murrah (MBAi ’25), fourth-year and master’s degree students are drawing on their foundational programming knowledge to experiment ...

What's a coding course for in the age of AI? Maybe not learning to write it

Now, it's an open question: Is there still a value in learning how to code?
Business Insider

As a computer science grad, she was promised stability. Then AI arrived.

A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here. A few Fridays ago, I was feeling smug. I'd just sent another Tech Memo ...
PBS

Learning computer coding opens up 'endless world' for these kids

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.

Replit's CEO says it's dumb to study computer science thinking you can make a 'boatload' at Google

Amjad Masad said that young people who are not deeply interested in computer science should not study it.
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Computer Science Leaders Examine Emerging Trends in CS Education

The state of computer science education has shifted drastically in recent years. Overwhelming demand for computer science programming and research has motivated many university computer science ...

Computer science was once a 'golden ticket' — now it's seeing the biggest enrollment drop ...

Nobel Prize–winning economist Simon Johnson said AI has "substantially wiped out" coding as a reliable source of opportunity.