On Saturday afternoon a group of 30 pint size wannabe hackers gathered at the GitHub offices in San Francisco for the first CoderDojo in the United States. Irish teen sensation, James Whelton had ...

Teenage coder and entrepreneur James Whelton talks about the impact of CoderDojo and how it is going international. The coding movement has spawned a massive following, a big waiting list and many ...

James Whelton and Bill Liao’s CoderDojo movement is just over six months old but has ignited a grassroots revolution that has seen kids and teens flock to the events to learn how to code for their ...

They are a formidable new force in the tech world – tween developers with world-class coding skills and firsthand insights into the games kids really want to play. At the forefront of this wave of ...

This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. by Taylor Soper on Sep 16, ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced it’s merging with another code club charity, Dublin-based CoderDojo. The aim is to advance shared goals around furthering the march of computing education for ...

The CoderDojo voluntary initiative to teach kids programming which was launched in June 2011 in Cork, Ireland, has now been adopted by Silicon Valley. There are already Dojos at over 130 locations ...

The story of CoderDojo is well known: Cork teenager James Whelton set up a computer club in his school, spotted a gap for kids interested in computer coding and found an angel investor, Australian ...

Matthew Malen is only 12 and already he knows how to code, develop websites, apps and games. On Thursday this Irish native spent the morning teaching a handful of San Francisco middle school students ...

Three innovative teens from Killorglin Community College are hoping to crack the coding competition circuit with their impressive idea of setting up a new contest for youngsters in Kerry. Second year ...

Darragh Walsh flashes a small electronic tag against the back of his smartphone and begins to explain how his self-designed app allows people to keep tabs on each other's movements. Stop listening for ...