Kids Code & Computer Science

Andrew created Bits & Bytes, a fun card game to teach kids computing skills: logic, problem solving, and critical thinking.

Tim describes how he created his game company, Glide Games, and with his young son created two video games, Elevator Adventures and Subway Adventures.

A 4,000 year old Chinese magic squares puzzle is both fun and a way to learn basic problem solving skills. Plus turtles.

Can you name the first video game? The first game likely was Tennis for Two in 1958 but it could be Space Wars! in 1962 or other games. It's complicated.

The story of an English-speaking person learning a little Japanese by playing the latest Harvest Moon game, Connect to a New World, in original Japanese.

Wendy Norman, the Director of Social Good at Microsoft, talks about the history and features of the Skype in the classroom service for teachers.

You can use the concepts of game play to turn almost any task or information into a game. Assuming you can define game play.

The Greatest Show and Tell on Earth turned out to be tons of fun for kids and parents, plus a place to wander and find new technology. Links and video.

Links from the bottom of all the October 2014 articles, collected in one place for you to print, share, or bookmark.

This language lets you modify the Skyrim game to learn game coding plus have fun adding objects and functionality to the game.

Interesting stories about computer science, software programming, and technology for the month of September 2014.

Three game creation software tools you can use to create games. Includes a brief description and lots of links to these and other game creation tools.