Google today announced that Grasshopper, its tool for teaching novices how to code, is now available on the desktop, too, in the form of a web-based app.

For kids, it’s an opportunity to add coding — something that has not been offered to many students in their regular school curriculum even before COVID-19 — to days of potentially reduced schooling.

The Coding for Beginners course describes itself as a foundational level course for complete beginners that introduces students to common coding concepts like bugs, pseudo code and how code runs.

The Marathon County Public Library in Wausau will offer a free computer class for beginners at its Wausau headquarters.

The class, which is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 5 from 10-11:30 a.m., is open to adults and seniors who have never used a computer but are interested in learning how. During the program ...

Matt Sharp — Delaware game developer, educator and founder of Momiji Studios — first created his “Coding for Actual Beginners (C#/Unity/Game Development)” virtual course a couple of years ago for ...