The former helps students learn to program with visual blocks, while the latter lets students jump straight into writing JavaScript or CoffeeScript. You can grab Coding with Chrome on the Chrome ...

Google’s internal incubator, Area 120, is today releasing its next creation: a learn-to-code mobile app for beginners called Grasshopper. At launch, the app teaches would-be coders how to write ...

Google has also confronted the shortcomings of JavaScript for complex application development, most notably by developing a new language to handle more complex Web applications, called Dart.