REDMOND, Wash. — Any resistance the young people in your life may have to learning basic computer science will effectively melt on Monday, when Microsoft and the non-profit group Code.org ...

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 [CS]2 course is designed for beginners with no computer programming experience and is based on Harvard’s Computer Science 50 (CS50), a basic-computing course taught in person at Harvard and ...

The Ignite Project is a 40-hour free workshop, with stipends provided, that will focus on the fundamentals of computer science for Louisiana’s K-5 public and public charter teachers. The program ...

This computer programming app is so easy to use that even a kindergartener can do it. Researchers in Massachusetts have created a basic computer coding app that they say is the first designed ...

A handful of nonprofit and for-profit groups are working to address what they see as a national education crisis: Too few of America's K-12 public schools actually teach computer science basics and ...

You'll find experiments for creating games and animations—and in the process learn not just how to code with the Raspberry Pi, but the basics of computer science as well.

The tutorial looks and feels just like Minecraft experience kids are so familiar with, but it requires them to control their characters with a series of computer programing-style commands. “The ...

It's estimated that only about 10 percent of K-12 schools teach computer science. Some companies are trying to fill a void in American public education by teaching kids computer programming basics.