Computer science education will probably focus less on coding and more on computational thinking and A.I. literacy, said Mary Lou Maher, a director of the Computing Research Association.

“Coding, or the translation of a precise design into software instructions, is dead,” Balazinska told GeekWire via email. “AI can do that. We have never graduated coders.

According to Sameer Samat, studying computer science is the science of solving problems. Samat, who learnt coding when Assembly language was being phased out, said it helped him understand how ...