The phenomenal Flappy Bird might have been shot down by its own creator but it lives on as inspiration for aspiring coders and mobile application designers. Non-profit organization Code.org hopes to ...

At the intersection of awesome and banal, there’s this: Code.org, a terrific site that helps kids learn coding from an early age, has a fun 8-step “puzzle” that lets kids program their own custom ...

Code.org is putting the incredible popularity of Flappy Bird to good use. It just released a new initiative to help young people (or whoever, really) learn how to code by building their own customized ...

The Flappy Bird phenomenon may inspire the next generation of coders. That’s what one computer-science group is counting on. The technology nonprofit Code.org, which works toward getting kids into ...

What better way to celebrate a flappy, er, happy first birthday than teaching children to make their own "Flappy Bird" game? A US-based organization advocating computer science education did just that ...

The lesson takes the form of a puzzle that goes through the actual game mechanics of Flappy Bird step-by-step, from flapping the bird’s wings each time you click your mouse, to deciding what happens ...

Code.org is celebrating its one-year anniversary with a nod to the late Flappy Bird game. Alongside the milestone announcement that Code.org students have written 1 billion lines of code, the site ...

The wonderful thing about the current age of mobile technology is anyone can now become a successful developer. Not since the days of the ZX Spectrum have lone developers been able to create and ...

A core reason why recent hits like Flappy Bird and Threes found success -- and are massively addictive -- lies in the way they put us in a unique zen-like state known as flow. Nick Statt was a staff ...