Computer programming is not usually taught to 8-year-olds. But a new system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology turns building video games into child’s play. The system is called ...

Are you starting to learn code? The process might seem exorbitant, and you must have been advised to take small steps. But have you considered an interactive option before you dive into the technical ...

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 ...

Chinese children attend a computer class to learn how to properly use the Internet, in Beijing on June 7, 2010. China defended its right to censor the Internet, saying it needed to do so to ensure ...

The MIT Media Lab recently released ScratchJr, a free iPad app that helps children 5-8 learn how to code. The app is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab, Tufts University, and Playful Invention ...

Scratch is a programming language learning environment enabling beginners to get results without having to learn syntactically correct writing first. Created by the MIT Media Lab, it is intended to ...

In an interview with Mitchel Resnick, who leads the group at MIT that develops Scratch, Amanda Sandler, CS First Program Manager asked Mitchell to explain main new ...

"More!" Greenwich Academy fourth-grader Ava Butz demanded of an iMac during a visit this week to a school computer lab. It was not a rhetorical statement. The desktop immediately registered and ...

On Tuesday, Lego Education introduced SPIKE Prime, a new robotics kit to teach middle school students how to code. It's up for preorder now for about $330, and shipping in August. With SPIKE Prime, ...

Scratch 3.0, a visual language programming language from MIT Media Lab, can now run on the official Raspberry Pi operating system, Raspbian. But you'll probably need a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB of RAM ...