The world is much different than when we were growing up. Teaching coding to kids was something very few people though ...

After BASIC, in the early 1970s, Niklaus Wirth developed Pascal, another language meant to solely be a tool to teach students computer programming concepts. “This language was not really developed to ...

The next day I and my nerdy friends raided the library. We found 101 Games in BASIC, a book with code for making versions of checkers, Battleship, and the like. It was our Necronomicon.

Computer Basics for Kids: A Guide to Teaching Tech Skills in K–12 From learning to type to learning coding, computers can open a fun world of endless possibilities.

During computer science education week, Dec. 8-14, More than 15 million students from 180 countries participated in the Hour of Code, according to the program's website.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average salary for a computer programmer was $77,550 per year in 2014. Most computer programmers have a Bachelor’s degree.

Microsoft wants to turn kids' love of Minecraft into a love of computer programming through a partnership with Code.org, announced on Monday morning.

The event called an Hour of Code was held at Carroll Hill School in Troy. Students K-5 were given a one hour lesson in the basics of computer coding and computer science.

From Hasbro's Think & Learn Code-a-Pillar to Anki's Cozmo to the Lego Boost kit, theses games and robots are teaching kids the basics of computer programming.

They may just be learning how to read and do basic math, but the 27 first-graders in Amy Wood's class at Roland Park Elementary/Middle School took to a lesson in computer coding like the proverbial ...