This is not the first coding camp for 12-year-old Pranav Shukla. However, UNB's video game development camp is allowing the middle schooler to combine his interests in computer games and programming.

The economic significance of programming skills is undeniable. According to a report by Burning Glass, jobs requiring coding skills earn an average of $22,000 more than those that don’t.

Top institutions like Harvard, Google, MIT, and IIT Bombay are offering free beginner coding courses in 2025. Covering Python, Java, R, C, and even Scratch for school educators, these courses help ...

"My mom told me to try it, so I was like, 'Yeah,' because I wanted to make games in the future," said Adam, 9, who wants to get rich when he grows up by owning a big video game company.

The researchers encouraged the students, who were aged between 18 and 63 and had no advanced coding skills, to play the games "Human Resource Machine" and "7 Billion Humans." "They are two of the ...

“Why not use stuff like [Microsoft’s video game coding platform] XNA? They dedicate a lot of time to low-level, hardcore programming.” But things aren’t all bad. White and his fellow Humber College ...

In a dimly-lit, but ultra-modern Gastown computer lab, the next generation of code crackers pound on keyboards as they create their own video games. Some of the youth in the room are already deft ...

VANCOUVER — In a dimly-lit, but uber modern Gastown computer lab, the next generation of code crackers pound on keyboards as they create their own video games. Some of the youth in the room are ...

On the car ride to his first day of coding camp, 12-year-old Pranav Shukla waited in excitement as his father, Dhirendra Shukla, pulled into the parking lot of the information technology centre at the ...