The tech world is being inundated by design gurus preaching “iteration!” But thinking like an artist can be more profound for programmers–and more natural. We all know about design thinking and its ...

Despite its diminished status in nearly every area of life, art—writ large—is still the highest measure of achievement, the most superlative of compliments. The “art” label is appended to show that a ...

Gissel Paz, 11, a student at Code/Art, a successful nonprofit that teaches coding skills to young girls, looks at a computer screen while completing her classwork during a lesson at the offices of the ...

As a young woman pursuing a career in STEM, engineer Amy Renshaw noticed an all-too-common pattern: She was often one of only a few women in her advanced math and science courses. As it turns out, ...

Lang’s Code as a Liberal Art minor enables you to develop skills in code and computational thinking as tools for critical and creative inquiry and for better understanding how computational systems ...

The seemingly opposite worlds of art and computer science collide as bright LEDs, microcontrollers, and other art structures culminate in a final creative project. In movements guided by creative ...

Half a century later, the artist Casey Reas is applying similar ideas to generative artwork, which is programmed beforehand, then executed–or performed–by virtue of a computer program. For Reas, the ...

I wasn't really aware as a kid that game development was a career that I could have, especially from an artist's perspective." That's Ashley Pinnick, a 28-year-old artist and game developer living in ...

When coding shows up in the curriculum of a liberal arts program, its primary purpose is usually pretty obvious: help students get hired. These efforts are often described as attempts to “help ...

A long time ago, after one stultifying conversation too many, I worked out a definition of "art" that I've stuck with ever since. Art, I maintain, consists of expressing as much as possible within the ...