One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like ...

I started learning programming in eighth grade. It was on my school's first Apple II and the program that most sticks in my head was a short BASIC routine that had a small square bouncing around ...

Valparaiso High School junior Kennedy Pony, one of several assistants during Scratch Day, said she honed her Scratch skills during a summer program at Indiana University Bloomington last year.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are making a coding program for three to eight-year-olds that will allow them to produce simple animations.

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 ...

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.

Its graphical user interface and programming language is simpler than Scratch to reduce the barriers to entry for young children.

Ten years ago, a computer programming language called Scratch emerged from the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.