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The article discusses research into how computer programming concepts can be made accessible to non-programmers. Effective educational methods need to draw upon insights from a variety of fields including computer science, education, and psychology. In a study performed by Lance A. Miller during the 1980s it was revealed how non-programmers rarely resort to control flow when approaching multi-step tasks. Subsequent experiments by John Pane and others at Carnegie Mellon University showed that object-oriented thinking does not come naturally to humans.

The article discusses the alleged Russian cyberattack on the 2016 U.S. presidential elections and the benefits of computing labs designed to support computational literacy in students. Topics include the U.S.' status of having the poorest cyberdefenses among leading developed countries, tips on teaching children literacy from the book "Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain," and the use of various learning activities to teach children to read and write computer programs.

The article presents two blog posts posted on the organization's Website in 2011. One discusses computer science study and teaching in Great Britain. A lack of higher education programs in computer software development is discussed and attributed to national education standards requiring written examinations. A report by the scientific organization. The second blog post considers analog computers. The possibility that analog computing could be used as a supplement to digital computing is considered, with the concept of a hybrid computer employing both digital and analog computing discussed.

The author discusses the importance of providing programming languages that support multimedia, taken from his blog post "Why Don't Languages Support Multimedia All the Way Down," located at http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/109917, from the "Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)." He addresses the need for computer scientists to be able to shift levels of abstraction, the prominence of digital media usage in the 21st century, and the benefits of teaching computer programming language manipulation to students in an introductory computer science class.

The article discusses the 2030 education goals, perspectives, and challenges for K-12 computer science (cs) education. It reports that most states in the U.S. are working towards computer science requirements for grades K-8, with elective courses available for 9-12. It warns that computer science classes must expand beyond just coding to appeal to a wide array of student, regardless of gender or race. Topics include computer literacy, the impact of changing computer technologies on society, and making cs a part of an interdisciplinary approach to education.