In an interview with Mitchel Resnick, who leads the group at MIT that develops Scratch, Amanda Sandler, CS First Program Manager asked Mitchell to explain main new features of the new Scratch 3.0 ...

I was introduced to this tool by Harvard’s CS50x. Scratch calls itself a block-based visual programming language. The original purpose of the tool was to teach programming concepts to small ...

The device he’s holding in the picture is an Arduino based ... Scratch is a programming language developed at MIT. It has kids in mind, and focuses on graphical building blocks.

The only kids’ programming language worth ... The new version of scratch includes extensions that allow you to control hardware, as well as new control blocks. Scratch 3.0 is the next generation ...

One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like ...

Scratch and other visual programming languages rely on a shape-based system that Resnick characterizes as the "Lego approach," that's much more intuitive for beginners. "With blocks, you use the ...

Scratch is a block-based programming language designed for elementary school children, letting them learn fundamental concepts while experimenting in an environment filled with visual and audible ...

As a parent of three technically savvy kids I find it disturbing that we haven’t even “scratched” the surface of Scratch, an amazing, object-oriented programming language from the MIT Media ...

Does the world need a new beginner’s programming language ... define the goals of Scratch: imagine, program, share. Scratch provides visual programming constructs and blocks for building ...