ERIKA: IN TODAY'S 5 FOR GOOD, FREE CODING CLASSES FOR KIDS WHO OTHERWISE MIGHT NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THAT KIND OF LEARNING. >> ZOMBIES ON THE ATTACK. THIS IS A VIDEO GAME BRAINSTORMING SESSION. >> THAT ...

While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review ...

Computers play a huge role in our everyday lives, and now more than ever, it's important that educators provide computer basics for kids, what computers can do and how technology can be helpful. From ...

ERIKA: IN TODAY'S 5 FOR GOOD, FREE CODING CLASSES FOR KIDS WHO OTHERWISE MIGHT NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THAT KIND OF LEARNING. >> ZOMBIES ON THE ATTACK. THIS IS A VIDEO GAME BRAINSTORMING SESSION. >> THAT ...

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, but it ...

Being the only girl, coupled with being the only Hispanic student, in many of the computer science classes and programs Athena Coco Hernandez was in, was a lot. Don’t misunderstand, though. It wasn’t ...

What is computer coding for kids? “Coding is simply telling a computer how to do something,” explains dad and computer expert Adam Gross, “You give it instructions, like writing an instruction sheet ...

One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like ...

In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, a nationwide computer science immersion program sets up shop at a couple Virginia elementary schools. The NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs has the story.

It’s Friday night and high school friends Milan Narula and Katherine McPhie are watching a game, celebrating with whoops and high fives every time someone scores. A group of college students in the ...

Taylor Howell works on a Java coding assignment in Lisa Whallon's class at Olathe Northwest High School. A teenager wakes up, gets ready for school. Slips a smartphone into her pocket on the way out ...