Blockly Games is an open-source Google project that was created to encourage tomorrow’s programmers, according to Google. The games are designed to be self-paced and self-teaching.

Blockly Adi Robertson is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011.

Ozobot, as the robot is called, made a popular debut last year at CES.After its first sales run over the most recent holiday period ($50 per Ozobot, which includes some games, apps and other ...

Google’s Blockly is a great place for coding newbies to start, with eight free online games that teach kids the basics of programming using text-based languages.

You may think of Ocado just in terms of grocery deliveries, but here they are freely delivering a learning to code game for kids, which uses Python and Blockly (kind of Google's answer to MIT's ...

Blockly looks strikingly similar to Scratch, in fact, except it can export the code blocks or show you the code beneath in JavaScript, Dart, Python, and XML. It's a learning tool that both kids ...

Although Blockly isn't coding directly, it does teach its users a little about coding and logic -- helping them to eventually become better programmers and developers. And Google likely wants ...