coding

Governor Asa Hutchinson recently attended Arkansas’ sixth annual Governor’s All-State Coding Competition. Hutchinson, in partnership with ARCodeKids, announced the winners of the competition in the Ida Waldron Auditorium of the University of Central Arkansas in Conway on Saturday, April 30,…

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will host a free Community Coding Day on Saturday, Dec. 4, to encourage members of the community to learn more about computer science education and innovations in Arkansas. The event will be held…

NorthWest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville has partnered with Promineo Tech to offer front-end and back-end software development and big data engineering boot camps. These 18-week boot camps are open for enrollment and will begin Oct. and Nov. 18. The…

The Arkansas Coding Academy (ArCA) at the University of Central Arkansas will hold its Demo Day and Five-Year Celebration on Friday, Oct. 15, from 3-5 p.m. at McCastlain Ballroom on the UCA campus.  ArCA Full-Stack Java and .NET graduates will…

As part of the Computer Science Education Week, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock is hosting a virtual Community Night of Coding this December. On Tuesday, Dec. 15, teachers and students are invited to participating in the community night,…

by Tyler Hale Watch any technology-focused movie from the mid-1990s onward, and it will feature a hacker. In these movies, hackers are the grungy, nervy computer geniuses who hack into government mainframes while chugging Mountain Dew. Or they are the…

Shortly after taking office in 2014, Gov. Asa Hutchinson recognized the need for more computer training in Arkansas schools and advocated for the introduction of coding into school curriculums across the state. In 2015, legislation was passed to expand computer…

Little Rock’s EAST Initiative (originally an acronym for Environmental and Spatial Technology) may fly under the radar in terms of name recognition, but its work in exposing Arkansas students to technology places it firmly among the state’s important tech leaders.…

I have just finished my ninth Computer Coding tour of Arkansas schools, and today I’d like to talk about our computer-science success. I tour the state because I enjoy the chance to meet thousands of students and teachers and to…

The Arkansas Coding Academy (ArCA) has named its new director. The coding academy, which is a program within the University of Central Arkansas’ Division of Outreach and Community Engagement, has appointed Dr. Donald Walker to serve as director. Walker will…