The book, which launched on Kickstarter Tuesday, also seeks to give greater representation to kids of color than traditional programming texts. Tory says he came up with the idea for the book when his ...

One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like ...

LITTLE Hackers, a book from Google engineer Brandon Tory that launched on Kickstarter Tuesday, is designed to teach kids to program computers without requiring them to actually put their hands on one.

The world is much different than when we were growing up. Teaching coding to kids was something very few people thought about. But today, parents and teachers know that teaching kids to code has lots ...

Whether or not your child grows up to be the next Zuckerberg, programming is a highly useful skill for him or her to learn. It teaches vital problem-solving, creativity, and communication skills. Plus ...

Parents might be happy to know their kids can get a head start in the competitive slipstream of computer programming by doing something they already enjoy -- playing video games. That's the goal of ...

One sunny summer morning this month, a group of 20 teenage girls gathered in a conference room in the sleek offices of a tech company in New York. It was their fifth week of coding camp, and they were ...

A student raises his hand, sounding irritated and wronged. The look on this 11-year-old’s face seems almost accusatory; his code is not running and he sounds as if it is the teacher’s fault. During my ...

When we say coding is a child’s play, Microsoft took it literally. While we lacked encouragement to program when we were young, the future for our children seems bright. Microsoft has a few ...

Kids in Greenwood as young as five are learning how to code and build video games at a new coding franchise. Code Ninjas is the world’s largest kid’s coding franchise with locations across the United ...