As students around the world participated in Hour of Code, some in Chester County built Web pages complete with Christmas trees and reindeer. Cathy Whitehead, a teacher at West Chester Elementary ...

Code is traditionally text-based; many people have heard of JavaScript, the world's most widely used coding language. However, students used the more age-appropriate Blockly Games during Hour of Code.

The code.org website is set up to allow users of all ages to go up to 20 hours beyond the hour of code tutorial to learn more complex computer science ideas, such as algorithms, functions and events.

Microsoft and Code.org have partnered to release a new Hour of Code installment based around the popular Minecraft game. In this installment of Hour of Code, you learn how to control either Steve ...

A part of a global initiative to teach coding to kids, 10 software engineers at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories worked in rotations to lead 230 Potlatch Elementary students in coding activities.

Google wants to encourage parents to get their kids involved in the Blockly games so they can introduce them to programming and promising future careers.

Computer Science Week is fast approaching, and Microsoft has teamed up with the organizers behind Minecraft and Hour of Code to encourage students to pick up coding within the Minecraft environment.

In an effort to get more students interested in computer programming, code.org, backed by a number of tech and Web giants, this week launches its Hour of Code initiative, running as part of ...

RACINE — After doing its first Hour of Code last year, Racine Unified expanded the event to four more elementary schools this year.

Computer science has been called the new literacy for the 21st century. And yet computer science education is declining in the U.S. The Hour of Code is one campaign hoping to change that.