Mark Gibbs explores Scratch and StarLogo, programming systems implements the metaphor for Google’s forthcoming App Inventor. Last week I was discussing Android applications and concluded by ...

Well, I was taught “structured programming” with blocks like Scratch uses drawn at the blackboard, back in the 90s at a community college. ... 1 perform a simple intended function.

Scratch 3.0 Was launched on January 2, 2019 and as the next version of the graphical, block-based programming language used by tens of millions of students, children and beginners to take their ...

It includes dozens of new sprites, a totally new sound editor, and many new programming blocks. And with Scratch 3.0, you are able to create and play projects on your tablet, ...

Computer programming is not usually taught to 8-year-olds. But a new system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology turns building video games into child’s play. The system is ...

As I understand it Scratch was intended as transitional to text programming. While it has visual blocks, it reads/scans like c/java. It is object oriented with scripts attached to actors (sprites ...

Meet Scratch Blocks, a synergy of MIT’s and Google’s visual programming languages that will teach young children Google has joined MIT in its efforts to get kids interested in the technical field.

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 ...

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.