Pearson launches contest with Hour of Code

By Stefanie Botelho. It should come as no surprise that computer science is booming. According to Code.org, it’s a top paying college degree and computer-programming jobs are growing at 2X the national average. But although women currently hold more than 51 percent of all professional occupations in the U.S., they hold only approximately 26 percent of all computing-related occupations. More...