Coding is one aspect of digital making. When you write code, you are writing instructions for a computer to follow. The instructions might just be "turn this graphic by one degree each second", or ...

When Bitsbox co-founder Scott Lininger learned to code, it was on a TRS-80 color computer his mom and dad bought him when he was a kid. He says he taught himself coding by copying from the book that ...

What separates a successful coding project from one that spirals into chaos? It’s not just technical skill or a great idea—it’s planning. Imagine diving into a project with no clear direction, only to ...

With computing jobs projected to grow two times faster than other fields, coding skills are an increasingly important literacy area. Libraries play a vital role in introducing these skills to their ...

With technology advancing at an ever-accelerating rate, the gadgets and innovations you come across daily can often feel like they've jumped straight out of a science fiction movie. For instance, you ...

The ancestor of modern Raspberry Pi boards was designed as an inexpensive tool to attract students to the joys of programming. Today, the Raspberry Pi series is extremely popular in the tinkering ...

You may not know about GitHub if you’re not a programmer. To those in the software business, GitHub or rival products like Atlassian Jira, are essential for dividing up coding tasks among team members ...

When GPT-5 came out, I didn’t just want to glance at changelogs or watch demo videos. I wanted to see what it could actually do for me, hands-on. Could it really build functional, fun, and usable ...

Inspired by the Hour of Code, many educators have pledged to go well beyond 60 minutes and teach their students coding and programming skills on a regular basis. The beauty of learning to code is that ...