We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Raspberry Pi computers have become very popular in the creator space. This is largely due to their compact form factors, customizable ...

Code.org has teamed up with Disney for a Star Wars-themed 'Hour of Code' project to teach kids computer programming. Given the hype around The Force Awakens, that's quite a coup for the organization ...

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 ...

A new one-hour programming tutorial lets students understand better how to build something as sophisticated as the wildly popular Minecraft game. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Since its release in 2011, Minecraft has captured the hearts and minds of today’s youth. With the recent release of MinecraftEDU school version, this popular game is rapidly becoming the most ...

As part of Computer Science Education Week, Google today announced its very first kids coding Doodle: a short interactive game designed to teach kids computer programming. A joint project by three ...

At Codecraft Lab, there’s a din of collaboration: kids typing noisily on computers and certainly not using their inside voices as they write and build and tinker away on their next big computer ...

Kids get their programming hands dirty by creating games using a free iPad app. The app has a number of games already loaded and ready for wireless transfer to the Hackaball, but also includes locked ...

NEW HAVEN >> Paris Huckaby, 15, a student at James Hillhouse High School, already knows how to code a website. Three days a week, Paris and a dozen other students file into the computer lab at LEAP to ...

Writing computer code is an important tool scientists use to learn more about climate change. Climatologists use code to make models that can help predict, mitigate, or even resolve climate disasters.

Google wants to encourage more kids to learn how to write computer programs. Monday’s “doodle” — a special logo design placed on Google’s homepage — is the first one ever to feature a programmable ...