A new book from No Starch Press, Super Scratch Programming Adventure!: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games makes it even easier to teach your kids basic programming skills.

Computer programming is not usually taught to 8-year-olds. But a new system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology turns building video games into child’s play. The system is ...

The BASIC programming language turns 60 Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.

I am finding very little about how to teach kids real programming where they need to write a program from scratch. In the '80s, I learned BASIC in 3rd or 4th grade on both my VIC-20 and on the ...

While dyed-in-the-wool programmers probably find it limiting, it can be an effective way to teach basic programming to newcomers and there are some people who enjoy the graphical style of programming.

We demand that the government takes the bold step of introducing ‘Scratch’ programming in the school syllabus immediately,” said co-leader of Project GEIT, Vincent Toscano. Project GEIT is a ...

The game understands a wide assortment of stock moves, from a basic scratch-scratch-twist to more difficult moves, and scores you accordingly.