Programming or coding can be a difficult thing to accomplish for an adult, much less a child. Nobody knows this better than coding teacher Linda Liukas, who is looking to introduce children to the ...

Hands-on experience is the most direct way to get better at programming. Watching videos or reading tutorials only gets you ...

A new Kickstarter project has been launched this week called Tickle that has been created by the MIT Media Lab to introduce children into app programming on iOS devices such as the iPad and iPhone.

If only there existed some gentler way to smuggle programming knowledge into your head. Thankfully, there are some great games out there that can teach you how to code, while also being fun.

OverTheWire is a collection of web-based games that challenge you to perform tasks. One of the best things about the OverTheWire games is that they teach you how to solve problems on your own and do ...

There are a lot of games and puzzles now that promise to teach kids how to code, but Tickle stands out. Now on Kickstarter, the iPad app was created in part by Mike Chen, a professor of computer ...

Despite a lack of hard-hitting research linking video games and simulations to learning gains, educators are showing increasing interest in using them to teach.

Computer programming is not usually taught to 8-year-olds. But a new system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology turns building video games into child’s play. The system is ...

Osmo Coding Amazon That's the main approach of Osmo Coding, a new game for the Osmo iPad accessory that bridges the gap between the physical and virtual world. Using the Osmo kit, which is ...