More Robust Coding Tools for Older Kids (and the Young at Heart) The apps below are more advanced, focusing on both on the code itself and visualizing how it works.

Move over, Space Camp: Coding is quickly growing as a popular activity for kids, and not just for those who dream of being programmers when they grow up. The logical thinking required to code can ...

Kids these days naturally understand smartphones better than anyone who has come before them. Check out this list of fun and educational apps for kids.

Scratch Moving past the simple single-character-manipulation apps, you'll find apps that teach programming through drag-and-drop interfaces with coding blocks. Think LEGO, but with code.

Some say coding is the new literacy, which makes it pretty important for kids to start learning young — and for adults to learn the basics of coding if they want to be a part of our increasingly ...

iOS: Hopscotch is one of the better tools for teaching kids how to code , and the previously iPad-only app is now available on the iPhone.We were fa ...

Lego Boost teaches kids how to bring blocks to life with code You can even make robots out of your existing Lego collection.

Swift Playgrounds, Apple's teach-kids*-how-to-code-app for the iPad, is now available to use on your Mac desktop. The title, which enables you to learn the basics of Swift, Apple's newest ...