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 ...

Today on the Google home page is a special interactive Google Doodle that helps kids learn how to code. It is to celebrate 50 years since kids programming languages during the Computer Science ...

A screenshot from CS First, a part of the 'Code with Google' educational resource which uses video content to teach kids (ages 9-14) how to code in Scratch, an MIT-developed programming language ...

China’s enthusiasm for teaching children to code is facing a new roadblock as organizations and students lose an essential tool: the Scratch programming language developed by the Lifelong ...

Do we need a new beginning programming language? My answer is “yes”, and the more programming languages and tools we have to introduce programming to kids, adults and everyone else, the better.

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.

Lego Education launched SPIKE Prime, a toolkit to teach middle school students how to code. Here's how Lego worked to make it inclusive for young girls.

MIT is teaming up with Google to create the next generation of its popular visual programming language "Scratch." The partners are working on an open source version of the language called "Scratch ...

The only kids’ programming language worth using, Scratch, just celebrated the launch of Scratch 3.0, an update that adds some interesting new functionality to the powerful open-source tool. The ...

Later this year, it plans to expand Code Lab to allow more complex actions, as it’s built off MIT’s Scratch programming language.

Computer programming is not usually taught to 8-year-olds. But a new system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology turns building video games into child’s play. The system is ...

Scratch may look simple, but this building-block programming language appropriately may help you learn the fundamental building blocks of other languages.