Microsoft wants to turn kids' love of Minecraft into a love of computer programming through a partnership with Code.org, announced on Monday morning.

Computer programming for kids could be the next big trend. Kids as young as three are learning the basics of programming through games.

"So most programs that introduce coding in fourth grade and up, it's great, but they are coming kind of late to the party," she says. The project was funded by a $1.3 million grant from the ...

50 years ago today, the BASIC computer language was born as two math professors from Dartmouth College used it to help run the school's computer system for the first time.

Just as kids are naturally inclined to pick up a new spoken language, it’s even easier to learn the language of computer programming. Give kids a jumpstart in computer programming with these ...

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 ...

Developed by Microsoft employee Vijaye Raji, the Small Basic language, which was inspired by the original BASIC programming language and runs on the .NET Framework, was designed with the beginner ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, a Creator of BASIC Computer Language, Dies at 96 At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers.