Coding curricula is sweeping into classrooms across the country, thanks to programs such as Code.org. According to the Education Commission of States, about 20 states now require that districts allow ...
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 ...
Today on the Google home page is a special interactive Google Doodle that helps kids learn how to code. It is to celebrate 50 years since kids programming languages during the Computer Science ...
How often do you read the words “fun”, “engaging” and “computer programming” in the same sentence? Thanks to the new book Super Scratch Programming Adventure: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games, by ...
When Bitsbox co-founder Scott Lininger learned to code, it was on a TRS-80 color computer his mom and dad bought him when he was a kid. He says he taught himself coding by copying from the book that ...
Mitch Resnik, the creator of the super-simple Scratch programming language and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, gave a TEDx talk about the value of coding and computer ...
Early coding skills give kids an advantage for tech-related jobs. Coding could help shape the future of education. Kids learn logical thinking, adaptability, and problem-solving through coding that ...