It’s a Sunday morning at East Dulwich Picturehouse in South London, and a group of three- and four-year-old children is playing in a backroom. But not with cars or dolls. Instead, they are learning ...

The Microsoft MakeCode platform is a free online blocks-based programming tool that's used to write the code that tells the micro:bit hardware what you want it to do. It’s very easy to use and allows ...

Shreenand, 13, has made an animation of a girl jumping up and down, by stringing together lines of computer code. "These are the co-ordinates of where the girl is at. I can make her move around to ...

“It’s like making my own little world,” beams fourteen-year-old Aarav Golecha as he arranges colourful blocks to make a character jump across the screen. He giggles with excitement each time the ...

Why it matters: There's a good chance you cut your coding teeth on BASIC if you took a computer class back in the 20th century. The Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code celebrated its 60th ...