There was a time when computers were far too expensive to let mere students use them. In those days, we wrote fake programs for fictitious machines and checked them by hand. That wasn’t fun, but it ...

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Kids are obsessed with computer games, spending countless hours in front of screens. Few know how those games work, and even fewer could create them themselves. But kids at Brookside Elementary in ...

Thanks to the plethora of start-ups now thriving in Silicon Valley and other tech-savvy cities, software developers have been in super-high demand of late. What better way to prepare your kid to ...

Maddy Petrovich, 14, of Wellesley, Mass. first started learning how to use the programming language Scratch when she was 10 years old. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) At a time when parents are eager to give their ...

A student completes the Minecraft-themed coding tutorial that Microsoft built with Code.org. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft wants to turn kids’ love of Minecraft into a love of computer programming ...

From beating the best human players at chess, to flying planes, to running stock market transactions, computers are now used in virtually every facet of modern-day life. But children aren't being ...

For five years, Coding with Kids has taught students as young as 5 the basics of computer science through games and activities. TODAY’s Sheinelle Jones checks it out to see what makes the program so ...

Researchers in Massachusetts created a basic computer coding app they say is the first designed specifically for children as young as 5. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — This computer programming app is so easy to ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque Public Schools students are getting a first-hand look at computer science. Students at Jackson Middle School joined the annual “Hour of Code” event, introducing ...

For Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 7-13), the nonprofit Code.org has helped organize nearly 200,000 "Hour of Code" events around the world. It's advocating for computer coding as a basic ...

BEIJING — Liu Shang tilted his head and sighed before tapping a plump finger on his computer’s keyboard. When asked if there was a problem the sixth-grader shrugged, barely looked up from the screen ...