China’s enthusiasm for teaching children to code is facing a new roadblock as organizations and students lose an essential tool: the Scratch programming language developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten ...

In the world of high-level programming languages, developers constantly deal with ** [object/struct]** types of highly ...

Scratch 3.0, a visual language programming language from MIT Media Lab, can now run on the official Raspberry Pi operating system, Raspbian. But you'll probably need a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB of RAM ...

Chinese children attend a computer class to learn how to properly use the Internet, in Beijing on June 7, 2010. China defended its right to censor the Internet, saying it needed to do so to ensure ...

On Tuesday, Lego Education introduced SPIKE Prime, a new robotics kit to teach middle school students how to code. It's up for preorder now for about $330, and shipping in August. With SPIKE Prime, ...

Mark Gibbs explores Scratch and StarLogo, programming systems implements the metaphor for Google’s forthcoming App Inventor Last week I was discussing Android applications and concluded by mentioning ...

Last week I was discussing Android applications and concluded by mentioning Google’s new and, as yet, un-released programming tool for the Android operating system called App Inventor for Android ...

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 called ...

About 40 years ago, tech legend Alan Kay invented the idea of a lightweight tablet computer that children could use to learn programming. Apple's iPad delivers on the tablet part of that vision -- but ...

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 ...