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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 ...

Kids thrill to the power of making their toys do their bidding, yet they also delight in toys that surprise them with new responses. These toys for the very youngest technoheads-to-be tempt kids into ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

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 ...

Computer coding ability has gotten especially hip recently. People who can’t code revere it as 21st century sorcery, while those who do it professionally are often driven to fits by it. And it was 50 ...

Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born in a ...