Recently its developers released a coding addition to the game that has sold over 121 million copies. Its developers at Microsoft hope to cultivate a large, open community for teachers and students ...

Using MIT's Scratch programming language, the pupils were first taught how to make "Scratch the Cat" move around their computer screens with simple coding commands.

With “Scratch,” the kids can create their own computer games, make robots move, even write their own test questions for different subjects in the classroom.

Virtual Scratch Coding Club for kids ages 7 to 12 — Saturdays, June 19; July 10; and Aug. 21 Virtual Scratch Jr. for kids ages 4 to 8 and their parents — Thursday, June 24 Fandemonium series teaching ...

Last year, Apple released a free app to teach the programming language Swift. Scratch Jr, a coding program designed for 4- to 7-year-olds, now has some 5 million users.

This differs from most coding options currently available for kids, like Scratch or Blockly, which teach the basics of computational thinking using drag-and-drop coding.

Scratch is a free, easy-to-use programming language and online community that encourages kids to create and share their own interactive stories, games and animation projects.

Kids get excited about making things go. Now you can get excited about making their minds grow with toys that teach computer coding basics.

Coding is a big deal for kids these days, but it can feel like work. These 12 games help teach programming fundamentals while still being fun.

Do we need a new beginning programming language? My answer is “yes”, and the more programming languages and tools we have to introduce programming to kids, adults and everyone else, the better.