REDMOND, Wash. — Any resistance the young people in your life may have to learning basic computer science will effectively melt on Monday, when Microsoft and the non-profit group Code.org ...

The tutorial, which is available now for free, walks students through 14 levels. It looks and feels like the Minecraft game that kids are so familiar with, but they have to use basic computer ...

The Ignite Project is a 40-hour free workshop, with stipends provided, that will focus on the fundamentals of computer science for Louisiana’s K-5 public and public charter teachers. The program ...

The nonprofit startup business group and Arizona FORGE — a University of Arizona workforce development and business accelerator — are a launching the basic computer-science course at their ...

This computer programming app is so easy to use that even a kindergartener can do it. Researchers in Massachusetts have created a basic computer coding app that they say is the first designed ...

A handful of nonprofit and for-profit groups are working to address what they see as a national education crisis: Too few of America's K-12 public schools actually teach computer science basics and ...

Microsoft and Code.org have launched a computer programing tutorial based on Minecraft. His comments came just hours after Microsoft and Seattle-based nonprofit Code.org launched a free Minecraft ...

You'll find experiments for creating games and animations—and in the process learn not just how to code with the Raspberry Pi, but the basics of computer science as well.

It's estimated that only about 10 percent of K-12 schools teach computer science. Some companies are trying to fill a void in American public education by teaching kids computer programming basics.