Computer Basics for Kids: A Guide to Teaching Tech Skills in K–12 From learning to type to learning coding, computers can open a fun world of endless possibilities.

After BASIC, in the early 1970s, Niklaus Wirth developed Pascal, another language meant to solely be a tool to teach students computer programming concepts. “This language was not really developed to ...

The next day I and my nerdy friends raided the library. We found 101 Games in BASIC, a book with code for making versions of checkers, Battleship, and the like. It was our Necronomicon.

(Microsoft Photo) Code.org co-founder Hadi Partovi explains that these kinds of block commands are how most computer programmers first learn the basics.

More (accompanied each time by three or four Hopkins' computer science majors) visited the local school on four occasions last week, introducing all 110 first-graders to coding through a fun, ...

The event called an Hour of Code was held at Carroll Hill School in Troy. Students K-5 were given a one hour lesson in the basics of computer coding and computer science.

Students throughout the Dublin City School District got to try their hand at coding and learned some of the basics of computer science, as part of a national Hour of Code initiative.

From Hasbro's Think & Learn Code-a-Pillar to Anki's Cozmo to the Lego Boost kit, theses games and robots are teaching kids the basics of computer programming.

Simply, coding is writing basic instructions for a task in a language that your computer will understand. Facebook? Your anti-virus software? Someone wrote the code to generate that software.

Y ears ago, I wrote a piece suggesting that computer coding should be a basic requirement in junior high schools. I compared it to a required class I myself took in grade school: Typing, a skill ...