Obi Abulu loves computers. “He learned to click a mouse before he learned to write,” says Attracta Abulu, the Woodbury seventh-grader’s mother. But when it came to learning more a… ...

Computer coding classes: Many educators want to turn coding into a new kind of literacy — a fundamental applied skill, a mode of inquiry and expression — that everybody should know.

Back when Grant Hosford's older daughter was in first grade, she signed up for an extracurricular class, building robots with a programmable Lego toy called Mindstorms. Hosford, a dot-com ...

This week, thousands of events around the world are encouraging computer-coding literacy. "Coding is really about creative self-expression and storytelling," says Mitchel Resnick of MIT's Media Lab.

The nonprofit STEM Coding Lab is providing computer classes in schools around the region.

Let children take the lead in computer coding classes, experts advise Shreenand, 13, has made an animation of a girl jumping up and down, by stringing together lines of computer code. "These are ...

A coding class would also help them gain a greater understanding of how technology is designed and how software serves as the medium for triggering all of a device’s capabilities.

Google today announced that Grasshopper, its tool for teaching novices how to code, is now available on the desktop, too, in the form of a web-based app.

Computer coding classes in Aussie primary schools Primary schools across the Australia have begun teaching students how to computer code.

A movement by parents and lawmakers to get computer coding classes to count toward foreign language credits in school hit a snag this month — but advocates aren't giving up. Sen. Jeremy Ring, a ...