Patrice Gans, a technology teacher and library-media specialist in Connecticut, reviews Super Scratch Programming Adventure (No Starch Press, 2012).

On May 16, 2009, learn more about Scratch, the free programming tool for kids.

Scratch Jr was inspired by the popular Scratch programming language for older kids. Developers say they redesigned the interface and programming language to make it appropriate for younger children.

Scratch was created to allow young (and young at heart), beginning programmers to create applications, games, animations and interactive stories.

In a sea of coding-for-kids products, an update to Anki’s holiday-shopping darling, Cozmo the robot, may have one of the best chances of success. Read on.

From the introductory one-off coding class to the more advanced programming languages, here's where to find the best resources.

Students programmed small prototypes with moving joints. Robot brains: Kids code to make the robots talk For the SmArtSummer camp program, Bledoe decided to go bigger. She blew up the robot parts, ...

The Arduino-based Kamibot, however, teaches kids how to code using Scratch, while offering fun customization with papercraft skins.

It’s also based on the new Scratch-like Square programming environment that runs on an iPad and is designed to transition kids from drag-and-drop coding to classic text-based coding.

Today on the Google home page is a special interactive Google Doodle that helps kids learn how to code. It is to celebrate 50 years since kids programming languages during the Computer Science ...