At a time when parents are eager to give their kids an edge in math and science, several computer programming languages have been developed specifically for children.

Athena Hernandez is a student at The Bishop’s School who recently published a computer programming book for kids, in Spanish, as part of her work to make the field more accessible to Hispanic youth ...

Primary school children are staying on after class to learn the building blocks of computer programming ...

Patrice Gans, a technology teacher and library-media specialist in Connecticut, reviews Jason Brigg's Python for Kids (No Starch Press, 2012).

Coding apps and toys may motivate kids and improve their computer science confidence, but they are unlikely to work miracles.

There was a time when computers were far too expensive to let mere students use them. In those days, we wrote fake programs for fictitious machines and checked them by hand. That wasn’t fun, … ...

Could American high school students soon be studying a computer programming language alongside French or Spanish?

A program's behavior depends on the type of language used to write the program. Nonetheless, almost all programming languages are based upon the same principle. This article will explain how a ...

How do programming languages get created, and what goes into design decisions? This question was originally answered on Quora by Keno Fischer.