A new book from No Starch Press, Super Scratch Programming Adventure!: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games makes it even easier to teach your kids basic programming skills.

So, what is the process for getting kids involved? Children are receptive to acquiring this new language of computer programming and the strategic thinking and reasoning processes that go with it.

In this article, we take a look into the 12 easiest programming languages for kids. You can skip our detailed analysis of programming languages, AI and their effects on the jobs market, and the ...

Programming resources for kids 101 Scratch, Lego Mindstorm and Microsoft's Kodu are efforts that may help stoke the programming fires in your little ones. Written by Larry Dignan, Contributor ...

For younger kids in the 5-to-6-year-old age range, Wigl is aimed at teaching basic music skills. The robot can move in different directions and light up depending on what musical notes a child plays.

A plan to teach all schoolchildren in England basic programming and networking skills has been published. The draft curriculum (PDF), published by the Department for Education on Thursday ...

Think of the Micro:bit as more of an Arduino than Raspberry Pi. Its primary function is to teach children basic programming by enabling clever creations. The back side of the device features a ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone.

The BASIC programming language turns 60 Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.

When I was a kid my dad bought me a bunch of Basic programming books and I would spend hours copying code line by line and having fun.<BR><BR>Does anybody know of good updated versions of these ...