Google's latest update to the Google Docs code blocks feature brings support for more than a dozen new programming languages.

Osmo's latest iPad game lets kids use modular, magnetic blocks to create sets of executable instructions.

This week, the Ryan School participated in the “Hour of Code,” an annual international effort started three years ago to teach children the basics of computer programming, or coding.

Minecraft: Education Edition can now teach kids how to code with the new Code Builder tool and the 'Agent', an in-game robot. Mojang will add Command Blocks in Education Edition later this year.

To do it, Anki looked to Scratch Blocks, an open-source project by the MIT Media Lab. It distills programming into a series of interlinking boxes, each representing a function or feature.

Playing with blocks may soon help your child learn how to code. Google has unveiled Project Bloks to provide a way for kids to partake in ‘tangible programming,’ allowing them to learn ...

The partners are working on an open source version of the language called "Scratch Blocks" based on Blockly, Google's own visual programming code.