Why is learning to code a big deal? Here's one reason: In 2015, as many as 7 million job openings were in occupations that required coding skills, reported Burning Glass, a job-market analytics firm.

Since its creation, Code.org‘s mission has been to get coding into curriculums for students as schools nationwide. Today, the nonprofit group is launching Code Studio, a combined set of tools and ...

Minecraft, which innocently started out as a vast open-world block-based game, is probably the closest thing to crack cocaine for kids. Its popularity with the grade school set is likely what helped ...