For younger kids in the 5-to-6-year-old age range, Wigl is aimed at teaching basic music skills. The robot can move in different directions and light up depending on what musical notes a child plays.

A new book from No Starch Press, Super Scratch Programming Adventure!: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games makes it even easier to teach your kids basic programming skills.

The app prompts kids to manipulate a character, Daisy, through challenges that involve loops, events, and other programming basics (e.g., when touched, move dinosaur forward).

Programming resources for kids 101 Scratch, Lego Mindstorm and Microsoft's Kodu are efforts that may help stoke the programming fires in your little ones. Written by Larry Dignan, Contributor ...

Patrice Gans, a technology teacher and library-media specialist in Connecticut, reviews Jason Brigg's Python for Kids (No Starch Press, 2012).

So, what is the process for getting kids involved? Children are receptive to acquiring this new language of computer programming and the strategic thinking and reasoning processes that go with it.

Yet another programming language from Microsoft: Small Basic Small Basic is a language for beginners (think kids) that was inspired by the … ...

Does the world need a new beginner’s programming language? In the 1960s, BASIC, FORTRAN, LISP and ALGOL were the primary introductory programming languages. In the 1970s and 1980s, Pascal, C ...

One of the main, if not the only, motivator for kids to want to learn programming is video games. They grow up playing video games and at some point decide that a career in the gaming industry ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone.