Nearly two years ago, I wrote about Google’s App Inventor. Unfortunately, Google discontinued it in December of last year (though, happily, MIT now maintains it). Recently, Google released Blockly, ...

It doesn't look like computer programming, but more of a giant interactive puzzle with colorful pieces that interlock. Google's Blockly is a completely visual programming language that allows someone ...

Google has released a completely visual programming language that lets you build software without typing a single character. Now available on Google Code-- the company's site for hosting open source ...

How can teachers push students to learn programming in the classroom through such endeavors as December's upcoming Hour of Code if they don’t know how to code themselves? Similar to MIT's Scratch, the ...

Ozobot, a tiny augmented reality robot that introduces kids to simple programming, is receiving an upgrade with Ozobot Bit. The new Ozobots use a customized block-based programming editor called ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHOOA7dpaJw&w=560&h=315] One of the bigger evolutions in education has been the push to get kids to become more computer ...

MIT is teaming up with Google to create the next generation of its popular visual programming language "Scratch." The partners are working on an open source version of the language called "Scratch ...

Teaching kids to code at an early age might be a hot and sometimes hotly debated topic these days, but as early as the 60s, there were already some computer scientists and educators blazing that trail ...