Coding apps and toys may motivate kids and improve their computer science confidence, but they are unlikely to work miracles.

This week, thousands of events around the world are encouraging computer-coding literacy. "Coding is really about creative self-expression and storytelling," says Mitchel Resnick of MIT's Media Lab.

From Hasbro's Think & Learn Code-a-Pillar to Anki's Cozmo to the Lego Boost kit, theses games and robots are teaching kids the basics of computer programming.

Coding is now a real part of education, from Pre-K through graduate school. But the way we do it in early grades may be incomplete.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average salary for a computer programmer was $77,550 per year in 2014. Most computer programmers have a Bachelor’s degree. Simply, coding is ...

As well as promoting the value of coding for the school curriculum, another aim of the project was to show kids that they could create their own computer games, rather than just playing them -- an ...

The tech industry backed non-profit group says some 600,000 kids will learn how to code in public schools this year, many of them women and minorities.

Parents eager to raise their kids to compete in a competitive job market are investing heavily in digital learning and tech for their children — even toddlers.

Eleven. That Chinese kids, including some as young as six, are learning the basics of computer programming is by no means a sign that the country is on the technological cutting edge.