Matt Lerner I wanted to expose my kids to programming because it’s a great skill and a powerful way of thinking. And my kids spend enough time playing Angry Birds and Cut the Rope on my iPhone ...

By guest blogger Patrice Gans Jason Briggs’ new book, Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming (No Starch Press, 2012), could not have hit the market at a better time.

It took the programming community a couple of decades to appreciate Python. But since the early 2010’s, it has been booming — and eventually surpassing C, C#, Java and JavaScript in popularity.

Kids as young as 10 years old can dive into Python and start their coding journey with confidence. It sets them up for success and makes learning programming a fun experience.

Scratch Jr. is designed for kids who are still learning to read, and has no variables or conditionals, which may be too confusing at their age. Python offers extensions to support many types of ...

Python for Kids is a book from No Starch Press that aims to teach kids ages 10 and up and their parents about the Python programming language. I happen to have an 11 year old daughter for ...

Python, the programming language that found a home in machine learning, is now the most popular language, according to one popularity ranking. Programming languages rise and fall in popularity ...

Find out what makes Python a versatile powerhouse for modern software development—from data science to machine learning, systems automation, web and API development, and more.

The latest releases of Python are versions 3.8.13, 3.9.13 and 3.10.5. Python 3.11 is currently in beta, with beta 3 released at the beginning of June 2022, and is due to be released in October 2022.