In a sea of coding-for-kids products, an update to Anki’s holiday-shopping darling, Cozmo the robot, may have one of the best chances of success. Read on.

“Stripping wires, learning how to use wire, practical stuff.” Eight-year-old Alex, a rising 3rd grader, showed me how they used Scratch, a visual programming language aimed primarily at kids, to code, ...

At Gifford Youth Achievement Center, kids in grades 3 to 10 learn how to code and build robots. The class may return in fall for the after-school program ...

In addition to being an adorable robot companion, Anki's Cozmo is now getting a programming platform of its very own. Starting today, Cozmo owners will have access to "Code Lab," a visual ...

It’s also based on the new Scratch-like Square programming environment that runs on an iPad and is designed to transition kids from drag-and-drop coding to classic text-based coding.

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Root joins a long line of tools, from simpler programming languages to children’s books that teach coding concepts, that the code literacy movement has created in recent years. Even the idea of ...