Guide pupils to use the Scratch interface to drag the coding blocks into place, and trial shaking their micro:bits to generate a number. If some pupils are finding Scratch tricky, ask them to work in ...

Coding is one aspect of digital making. When you write code, you are writing instructions for a computer to follow. The instructions might just be "turn this graphic by one degree each second", or ...

Children in the Capital Region have the chance to use their love of video games to teach them about technology and computer science. The Minecraft Builders summer camp, part of the Bilingual Genius ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Hobbyist game developers and tinkerers who love the original Game Boy have a cool new book to pore over. Game Boy Coding Adventure is the latest release from No Starch Press, a publisher specializing ...

Why it matters: There's a good chance you cut your coding teeth on BASIC if you took a computer class back in the 20th century. The Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code celebrated its 60th ...