Coding is one aspect of digital making. When you write code, you are writing instructions for a computer to follow. The instructions might just be "turn this graphic by one degree each second", or ...

From programmable LEGO robots to mobile apps like Hopscotch, there’s no shortage of games and toys designed to get children ...

Some robots make people feel like climbing the wall, and other robots climb the walls themselves. Root a new code-teaching robot is the latest in a long line of teaching bots designed to inspire ...

One of the nice surprise introductions at WWDC was Swift Playgrounds, a new app coming to the iPad and iOS 10 that will help teach kids (or anyone, really) how to code with Swift. Apple introduced ...

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey have one thing in common — they both taught themselves to code. Coding can be a very lucrative skill, and learning languages like Perl can ...

I'm a sysadmin and I never learned to program... This weekend my nephew asked if I could teach him to program. I told him I didn't write code, but I really want to learn, and maybe we could learn ...

Coding is a big deal right now. Worldwide, 36 million kids have taken part in “Hour of code” activities, helping them become active, rather than passive users of technology and starting learning that ...

Kansas City-area Girl Scouts learned how to code and teach voice-activated skills to Amazon's Alexa."I've really only done one coding thing in my life," said 10-year-old Ava Montgomery.But the ...

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2018 there were over 250,000 computer programming jobs in the United States, with a median salary of around $84,000 per year. While coding is a highly ...

If you're a parent, then chances are you've heard endless debates about how screen time affects children. And while it's always a good idea to encourage your kids to put down their phones, tablets, ...