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 ...

The world is much different than when we were growing up. Teaching coding to kids was something very few people thought about ...

For years, coding has been thought of as a useful skill for children to learn. It’s integrated into computer science classes and a number of organizations are dedicated to helping kids code. But now, ...

It’s Friday night and high school friends Milan Narula and Katherine McPhie are watching a game, celebrating with whoops and high fives every time someone scores. A group of college students in the ...

Let’s teach as many kids as possible to code. Our future depends on it. That’s a statement that not too long ago we took for granted as unambiguously correct and non-controversial. Now, there are some ...

On a recent late-night formula run, I passed by a large display of books about teaching children to code. I have seen these books around, but never such a large display directed toward elementary-aged ...

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When Samaira Mehta was six years old, her father played a prank on her. 'He showed me basically something on his computer which had one button and a command which said, ‘Press this if you're beautiful ...

My five- and seven-year-old constantly fight over who gets the iPad first. We have one, and they get to use it in tiny doses, usually when I'm at my wit's end. Their favorite app? ScratchJr, MIT's ...

BEIJING — Liu Shang tilted his head and sighed before tapping a plump finger on his computer’s keyboard. When asked if there was a problem the sixth-grader shrugged, barely looked up from the screen ...