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 ...

Children can make interactive projects in Scratch by creating digital stories, games, and animations. Scratch is free and available in more than 70 languages. That’s it.

Scratch saves its finished files in its own .SB format, but users can upload their finished products to the Scratch home page with the click of a button, a very Web 2.0 addition.

Patrice Gans, a technology teacher and library-media specialist in Connecticut, reviews Super Scratch Programming Adventure (No Starch Press, 2012).

Adams was demonstrating a game he made via Scratch, a program invented by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Scratch teaches the basic skills of computer programming, and the seven ...

Day 1: Introduction to the Project and Basics of Scratch. Objective: Introduce the lunar lander project and familiarize students with Scratch. Activities: Present the driving question: "How can we use ...

The only kids’ programming language worth using, Scratch, just celebrated the launch of Scratch 3.0, an update that adds some interesting new functionality to the powerful open-source tool.

Code Club is basing its projects around MIT's Scratch programming tools Volunteers have kicked off a project to set up after-school clubs that teach young children how to programme computers ...

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 ...