Coding is one aspect of digital making. When you write code, you are writing instructions for a computer to follow. The instructions might just be "turn this graphic by one degree each second", or ...

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 ...

A student completes the Minecraft-themed coding tutorial that Microsoft built with Code.org. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft wants to turn kids’ love of Minecraft into a love of computer programming ...

Vikas Gupta feels like learning to how to program computers, or code, is a superpower. He taught himself BASIC, a computer language, on his high school’s two computers in Chandigarh, India, during the ...

Taylor Howell works on a Java coding assignment in Lisa Whallon's class at Olathe Northwest High School. A teenager wakes up, gets ready for school. Slips a smartphone into her pocket on the way out ...

There are more than 3 million public school teachers in America, and many of them don’t know much about computer science. Whether the ambitious new plan comes to fruition will depend largely on the ...

Computers play a huge role in our everyday lives, and now more than ever, it's important that educators provide computer basics for kids, what computers can do and how technology can be helpful. From ...

This article was updated on Jan. 6, 2015, at 1:08 p.m. ET. Bill Gates was 13 when he started to code. Elon Musk was 12 and Mark Zuckerberg was 10. Compared to today’s growing crop of software-savvy ...

South Hills High School teacher Saleta Thomas bills her class as a digital game-design program for students. But once students opt to take the class, they start learning computer coding through basic ...

As a baby nerd, I was obsessed with Hackers. The 1995 cult movie followed Dade Murphy, who banded together with his fellow computer-savvy outcasts to expose a nefarious embezzlement scheme perpetrated ...

More than 9 out of 10 parents want their children to learn to code, according to polls. But can parents teach children things they don't know themselves? WSJ's Sue Shellenbarger discusses with Tanya ...