Sometimes hobbies grow to become much more than hobbies. Some children who are in the school play in fifth grade may decide to study drama in college. After college they may return to their ...

When personal computers first became popular in the 1980s, every school in the country taught computer programming to every student. That was a bad idea. Students should not be forced to learn ...

Joshua Symonds writes a program to move a mouse around the stage using the cursor keys on the keyboard. Photo supplied. All Grade 4 to 6 pupils are invited to participate in this year’s Scratch Day at ...

Learning to code is a good way to better understand the changing world of cybersecurity. If you're a programming neophyte, the 2023 Coding with Scratch Programming Bundle offers five courses that show ...

Scratch 3.0, a visual language programming language from MIT Media Lab, can now run on the official Raspberry Pi operating system, Raspbian. But you'll probably need a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB of RAM ...

To tell a computer to do something, a program must be written to tell it exactly what to do and how to do it. If an algorithm has been designed, the computer program will follow this algorithm, ...

The following article is reprinted from the Today@PC World blog at PCWorld.com. Sometimes hobbies grow to become much more than hobbies. Some children who are in the school play in fifth grade may ...