Slot machine games have long been a favorite in the casino world. The simple mechanics of spinning reels and matching symbols make them easy to understand and highly addictive. These games rely ...

It’s hard to get kids to code. Up until very recently, it was largely inaccessible, with little curricula in place and few teachers qualified to teach it. And even today, with all the progress we’ve ...

This coding manual from Young Rewired State, a “worldwide community of digital makers age eighteen and under,” offers a story-driven course in HTML, CSS, and ...

CodeCombat, a platform that helps people learn to code through playing games, has raised $6 million in a series A round of funding led by Hone Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, ...

Games and coding have always been tightly linked, and for obvious reasons: Creating a game is an intense labor of coding love. Oftentimes we think of the process as a difficult, inaccessible art, but ...

A startup that turns practicing your programming skills into a game, CodeFights, has just raised $2.4 million in seed funding to further develop its real-time, social game where developers can ...

There has been a concerted effort nationwide to bring coding curriculum to young students, with a plethora of examples ranging from extracurricular programs to lessons embedded into core studies. Now ...

Dhara Singh is one of CNET's summer interns and a student at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She loves digging deep into the social issues that arise from everyday technology. Aside from ...