With the ability to import your own graphics, collision detection, and sound effects, I could see kids programming some advanced games that are limited only by their imagination.

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.

Yes, a computer program that learns from scratch to beat a level so Super Mario World. That's exactly what Seth Bling set out to do with the Artificial Intelligence program he calls MarI/O.

Adams was demonstrating a game he made via Scratch, a program invented by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Scratch teaches the basic skills of computer programming, and the seven ...

Researchers at Georgia Tech have designed a computer program that builds new Super Mario Bros. levels from scratch. More stunning than that, however, is that the program teaches itself to build ...

A computer program just taught itself to play Super Mario World. Guess what? It's really, really good. On Saturday, programmer SethBling introduced the world to MarI/O, a Machine Learning program ...