One of the fun things about “old school” computers is that it was fairly easy to get kids into programming them. The old Basic interpreters were pretty forgiving, and you could do some clever things ...

On the screen at the front of the room, the cat was getting across the road too easily despite the big blue dog and the automobile traffic. At the console across the room, computer science professor ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A new language from MIT's Media Lab makes it easy for kids to develop programs that interact with things in the real world: Pencils, paper, water, and even vegetables. Called ...

Maddy Petrovich, 14, of Wellesley, Mass. first started learning how to use the programming language Scratch when she was 10 years old. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) At a time when parents are eager to give their ...

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We've come a long way since the plastic touch screen of yesteryear. They were soft, resistive, scratched easily, and all but gave rise to the screen-protector industry. Today we've pretty much given ...

Mohs hardness ratings to test whether they would scratch the screen. A needle with a Mohs hardness of 2 can scratch a typical plastic-faced display, but it will not scratch the Nintendo Switch 2 ...