Microsoft has launched a new 44-part series called Python for Beginners on YouTube, consisting of three- to four-minute lessons from two self-described geeks at ...

This book brings Python to life and brings kids (and their parents) into the world of programming. Author Jason R. Briggs guides readers through the basics, experimenting with unique (and amusing) ...

An alert from the Microsoft Download Center reminded me of the existence of Kodu Game Lab, a tool that lets users create games and learn some programming along the way. Kodu, from Microsoft Research ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

Sitting around with "a lot of time on my hand," Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over Christmas break in 1989: building a new programming language ...