Coding for Kids: Python: Learn to Code with 50 Awesome Games and Activities ($18) is recommended for ages 10-18.

While EAK teaches kids to type “real code, so it can never be on a phone,” according to Saigal, one big change in the new breed of coding apps for kids is that many of them are mobile-first.

For older kids, a better option than a readymade kit might be a introductory programming book like the well-reviewed Python for Kids and this basic Raspberry Pi setup.

Kids ages 5 and up can also use image-heavy kids' coding tools or games and apps such as ScratchJr (an app in which kids can program their own stories and games), The Foos (an app that uses visual ...

Programming languages come and go—and you will adapt. The popularity of programming languages change, and there is no guarantee that what we teach our kids today will be used by the time they enter ...

Kids can begin coding as young as five to seven years old. They can start with visual drag and drop programming and then move on to learn more advanced program languages such as Python.

Introducing Codeverse, the world’s first fully interactive coding studio for kids ages 6-13. Opening at the Houston Galleria this summer, Codeverse will be offering weeklong summer camps ...

If your kids show an interest in learning to code, you should do everything possible to encourage that interest. The demand for the skill will hardly go away in the following years. First, coding ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Nikhil said he has seen participants as young as 5 in the same classes as fifth-graders. Classes offered by MathAndCoding include coding for kids, Python, Java, web development and robotics.