I started learning programming in eighth grade. It was on my school's first Apple II and the program that most sticks in my head was a short BASIC routine that had a small square bouncing around ...

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 ...

Mitch Resnik, the creator of the super-simple Scratch programming language and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, gave a TEDx talk about the value of coding and computer ...

The pong game creation module is designed to provide an introduction to the Raspberry Pi’s Scratch program and programming in general. It provides a concise, yet comprehensive, introduction to ...

Adams was demonstrating a game he made via Scratch, a program invented by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Scratch teaches the basic skills of computer programming, and the seven ...

Striders Minecraft Monday program begins Feb. 8 and will run for five weeks. The cost is $50, and the class runs from 4-5 p.m. every Monday. Minecraft is a game that provides players a large terrain ...

You can use a wide range of programming languages with the Raspberry Pi, but here we're going to use Scratch.