These 15 free coding classes for kids are available now to help your kids learn skills that are becoming more and more essential in our current times.

Patrice Gans, a technology teacher and library-media specialist in Connecticut, reviews Jason Brigg's Python for Kids (No Starch Press, 2012).

Coding for Kids: Python: Learn to Code with 50 Awesome Games and Activities ($18) is recommended for ages 10-18.

Late last month, Ubisoft introduced Rabbids Coding, a new educational game featuring the company's rabbid characters that helps teach kids the basics of coding. In an update on the game today ...

Text-based programming languages like CSS, Java and Python, and block-based programming languages like Scratch, Scratch Jr and Snap. Martha Mutisya from KICD said coding is profitable to learners.

The lessons are run in two-hour sessions, and cover coding through programming language Scratch, creating games and brushing up on basic ICT skills.

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