This week, thousands of events around the world are encouraging computer-coding literacy. "Coding is really about creative self-expression and storytelling," says Mitchel Resnick of MIT's Media Lab.

In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, a nationwide computer science immersion program sets up shop at a couple Virginia elementary schools. The NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs has the story.

And the programming language Scratch, developed at MIT's Media Lab, lets kids create interactive stories, animations, games, music and art, and share them online.

By Analiese Dodd These 15 free coding classes for kids are available now to help your kids learn skills that are becoming more and more essential in our current times. Knowing even just basic ...

The original Blockly project was featured during the 2013 Computer Science Education week, where people of all ages tried programming for the first time, she explained.

Computer programming for kids could be the next big trend. That’s if the success of recent Kickstarter projects, including one aimed at teaching kids as young as three the basics of programming ...

Overall, girls account for 44 percent of the 1.2 million comments posted about computer programming projects on Scratch every month. Girls outnumber boys more than two to one in comments within ...

When Bitsbox co-founder Scott Lininger learned to code, it was on a TRS-80 color computer his mom and dad bought him when he was a kid. He says he taught ...

My kids are looking for coding.'" We Code KC serves youth ages 7-17. They offer classes every first and third Saturday at Thrive Health Connection, located 5008 Prospect Avenue in Kansas City ...