Mastering the C programming language - a classic code environment used to build software, apps, and whole operating systems - is a great skill, and Mac OS X makes it easy to learn.

Code::Blocks support compilers such as C, C++, and Fortran. Plugins extend Code::Blocks; its features and functionality are characterized by installing and coding a plugin.

Osmo's latest iPad game lets kids use modular, magnetic blocks to create sets of executable instructions.

Google's latest update to the Google Docs code blocks feature brings support for more than a dozen new programming languages.

Osmo's blocks are like Lego for coding The iPad game and magnetic pieces are designed to teach kids how to program.

With a new initiative called Project Bloks, a team of Google researchers is trying to make coding a hands-on experience---literally.

The partners are working on an open source version of the language called "Scratch Blocks" based on Blockly, Google's own visual programming code.