Microsoft has released Kodu, a game developed by Microsoft Research that lets users create their own worlds while teaching them the basics of game development, as a public beta for the PC. To get ...

I'm pleased to announce a new series here at GeekMom called Bit by Bit! As a programmer, I've approached the subject of programming on GeekMom a few times. When I do, I often get feedback from parents ...

Microsoft Studios manager Michael Saxs Persson tells Joystiq that Project Spark is a natural evolution of the programming language found in Kodu Game Lab, the game building software released on Xbox ...

How do you get young kids to code? By giving them the tools to create a game where they control a Curiosity-like rover on the surface of Mars, according to Microsoft. Kodu is a programming game, with ...

The first computer program I ever wrote, in the second grade, was composed in pencil and ran on the platform known as my friend Nicholas. We were about to start learning Logo, the program that teaches ...

Who says making a video game is hard? Pshaw. Even a 9-year-old can do it. Even I can do it … and that’s saying something since I’m quite the dumb-dumb when it comes to the maths. OK. Perhaps the ...

Programming can be overwhelming for all but the most determined kids. I learned BASIC at an early age in attempt to create my own games. My cousin, after learning that Wolfenstein 3D was written in ...