While it’s not as complex as checkers or chess, building tic-tac-toe teaches valuable lessons about multidimensional arrays, exception handling, and flow control. These skills will prove useful when ...

Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. “Programming” in board games—where you lay down ...

A team of computer scientists has developed a videogame called CodeSpells that teaches people how to code in Java. The game was tested on a group of 10- to 12-year-old girls who had never done any ...