Scratch Day 2009 – Computer Programming for Kids. Community Voices By Phil Shapiro, ... Some children who are in the school play in fifth grade may decide to study drama in college.

A new book from No Starch Press, Super Scratch Programming Adventure!: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games makes it even easier to teach your kids basic programming skills.

Granat told The Times in Munster (https://bit.ly/1E2sMjQ ) that Scratch is an educational programming language from Massachusetts Institute of Technology aimed at third grade and older.

On Tuesday, Lego Education introduced SPIKE Prime, a new robotics kit to teach middle school students how to code. It's up for preorder now for about $330, and shipping in August.

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 ...

In the past, many computer journalists have tried to explain advanced concepts such as object-oriented programming by comparing the activity to building applications by connecting smaller ...

Calvin also hosted an Imaginary Worlds Camp for 23 sixth-through-12 th-grade boys the previous week. Midway through the girls’ camp, 11-year-old Evelyn Pae, a sixth-grader at Central Woodlands School ...

MIT's Media Lab is gearing up for Scratch Day 2009, to introduce new people to their programming language for kids.