This post was sponsored by Macmillan, publisher of the Hello Ruby children’s book. Growing up, I had a number of wonderful teachers. Mrs. Snyder showed me how to write in cursive, and Mrs. Walls ...

Programming or coding can be a difficult thing to accomplish for an adult, much less a child. Nobody knows this better than coding teacher Linda Liukas, who is looking to introduce children to the ...

Linda Liukas wrote her first lines of computer code when she was 13 years old. She was inspired by the man who was then the vice president of the United States. "I was madly in love with Al Gore," she ...

Linda Liukas thought her project might be popular, but the numbers took her breath away. Within hours of launching Hello Ruby, a book designed to teach five- to seven-year-olds how to code, on ...

[kickstarter url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lindaliukas/hello-ruby width=640] I normally dislike writing about the issue of women in the technology industry ...

‘Programming is a mean of self-expression, just like Lego and crayons,’ according to Finland’s Linda Liukas on her international children’s book hit, ‘Hello Ruby.’ The pitch worked. Although her goal ...