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 computer programming is ...

A free Minecraft coding tutorial from Microsoft, created for the upcoming and third annual Hour of Code, introduces players ages 6 and older to basic coding contained within the popular “sandbox” game ...

The world is much different than when we were growing up. Teaching coding to kids was something very few people thought about ...

A student completes the Minecraft-themed coding tutorial that Microsoft built with Code.org. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft wants to turn kids’ love of Minecraft into a love of computer programming ...

Annual Hour of Code, during Computer Science Education Week, encourages educators and students to participate in one hour of coding Computer science skills have enjoyed more time in the spotlight as ...

Microsoft has announced a partnership with Code.org that will bring Minecraft into the education curriculum. Mojang, the Sweden-based game development studio that shot to prominence due to its work on ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Learning how to code has a bit of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reputation. On the one hand, it promises to be a path to job stability, given that by 2020 some one million computer science ...

When Samaira Mehta was six years old, her father played a prank on her. 'He showed me basically something on his computer which had one button and a command which said, ‘Press this if you're beautiful ...

Satya Nadella leaned closer to the workstation. A pair of coders plugging away on a Dell laptop had reached an impasse. Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive and a longtime software engineer, knew the ...

If you’re reading this, it’s thanks in part to coding. At its core, coding is another word for computer programming, or the means by which one creates a set of instructions that powers a computer’s ...