Tynker and Parrot are offering an all-in-one bundle designed to teach kids how to code through programming unmanned aerial vehicles (or drones). The “Parrot Mambo Code” bundle comes with a Parrot ...
My five- and seven-year-old constantly fight over who gets the iPad first. We have one, and they get to use it in tiny doses, usually when I'm at my wit's end. Their favorite app? ScratchJr, MIT's ...
Writing computer code is an important tool scientists use to learn more about climate change. Climatologists use code to make models that can help predict, mitigate, or even resolve climate disasters.
One of the nice surprise introductions at WWDC was Swift Playgrounds, a new app coming to the iPad and iOS 10 that will help teach kids (or anyone, really) how to code with Swift. Apple introduced ...
Coding is a big deal right now. Worldwide, 36 million kids have taken part in “Hour of code” activities, helping them become active, rather than passive users of technology and starting learning that ...
It’s been more than a year since University of Virginia alumna Sarah Lau and several of her former McIntire School of Commerce classmates taught coding to students at Charlottesville’s Walker Upper ...
At the upper bounds of education, in the post-college and career training universes, we think of computer coding as a skill. It’s a thing you can learn how to do that will make you more valuable as an ...
Like many mom friends, Michelle Preddice and Andrea Dabal met through their children years ago. But these days, their meet ups are more business than social. Together, the two are opening up a Code ...
Parents have embraced coding lessons as a positive form of screen time for their children, with the tech skill nudging in alongside music, dance and sport as a top extra-curricular activity About ...