The case for teaching coders to speak FrenchMax Whittaker / NYT / ReduxMarch 19, 2024, 1:47 PM ETLast year, 18 percent of Stanford University seniors graduated with a degree in computer science, more than double the proportion of just a decade earlier. Over the same period at MIT, that rate went up from 23 percent to 42 percent. These increases are common everywhere: The average number of undergraduate CS majors at universities in the U.S. and Canada tripled in the decade after 2005, and it keep...