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

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.

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 ...

These coding books are a great way to introduce your kids to programming and STEM fields.

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 ...

One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like ...

Osmo's latest iPad game lets kids use modular, magnetic blocks to create sets of executable instructions.

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.

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.