From the age of five children will learn how to write and test simple programs, and to organise, store and retrieve data, while 11-year-olds will be taught to use a range of programming languages.

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 ...

It'll look familiar to those who've used introductory programming projects like Google's Pencil Code or MIT's Scratch: Commands take the form of Lego-like pieces you snap together into a sequence ...

There are a wealth of ways for kids to learn computer science and programming these days. Add to the mix: Google's own CS First curriculum, a free program with a variety of themes for all kinds of ...

Microsoft wants to turn kids’ love of Minecraft into a love of computer programming through a partnership with Code.org, announced on Monday morning.

The company, founded by three UC San Diego graduate students, is working with more than 500 teachers in the U.S. and around the world, and has sold 40,000 coding games to kids and their parents. In ...