One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like ...

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 ...

One sunny summer morning this month, a group of 20 teenage girls gathered in a conference room in the sleek offices of a tech company in New York. It was their fifth week of coding camp, and they were ...

The world is much different than when we were growing up. Teaching coding to kids was something very few people thought about. But today, parents and teachers know that teaching kids to code has lots ...

You might think coding is a novel trend that doesn’t have other applications beyond programming, but coding offers many connections to multiple subjects, with the added benefit of reinforcing ...

A Los Angeles startup called codeSpark has raised $4.1 million in seed funding for web and mobile games that teach kids how to code, even before they know how to read and write effectively.

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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 ...

Fifteen years ago, I started this column with the advice that "computers are not a passing fad -- they are here to stay." In this, my last column as USA Today's Kid-Tech Columnist, my advice is: teach ...