"You know how haunted houses have creaky doors or creepy monsters? I made the story go real loud, but real slow to make it seem scary," Tariq Trowell, a seven-year-old at Breckinridge-Franklin ...

A couple of years ago, as an 8-year-old trying to learn to code, a student named Theo was frustrated. Theo happens to be blind, and the standard tools designed to teach children to code rely heavily ...

Microsoft has developed a product that introduces blind children to the world of coding. Called Code Jumper, this product is the result of Project Torino, a research project that was beta tested at ...

Microsoft just unloaded a whole bunch of news in time for the BETT education show. The most interesting bit of the bunch, however, is probably Code Jumper. The tethered hardware device is design to ...

Code Jumper is a new and innovative product designed to assist children in learning to code regardless of their visual ability. This unique physical system allows children to learn computer coding and ...

Although the company has made a few controversial decisions in the past, one thing Microsoft can't be accused of is ignoring the needs of those with physical or mental disabilities. A few months back, ...

Microsoft announced today that it is transferring the tech behind Code Jumper to the American Printing House for the Blind. It's a physical programming language designed to help kids learn to code.

Due to the visual nature of common computer-based coding languages like Python and C++, blind and visually impaired students face greater challenges in learning to code. That’s where Code Jumper comes ...