Classes typically run an hour or two and range from teaching coding concepts through Minecraft to learning practical computing skills in Excel and PowerPoint. Programs just for girls exist, too.

Coding? You gotta start somewhere. These are the classes for beginners you need to know about.

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.

If bootcamps are a “road to the middle class”, as President Obama has said, then they need to be made accessible for people outside of the middle class.

If I wanted to be relevant, I would need to hack what I was learning. Every class I attended that quarter made almost no sense to me—just like my old math classes.

Salinas High sophomore brings coding classes to rural area Marco Pizarro-Silva, right, a Salinas High sophomore, decided to teach a coding class in Chualar to help bridged the digital divide.