Educators will appreciate the new video tutorials in Scratch 3.0—there are tutorials to help students get started, explain new features and support new types of projects.

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 ...

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.

Along the way, Scratch helps programmers learn about loops, conditionals and event-driven programming. Scratch is written in Squeak (more about that in a moment) and is an open source project.

The original Scratch programming language is already used by millions of older kids, but it was too complicated for younger kids. The Scratch team redesigned the interface, simplifying it in order ...

With SPIKE Prime, students can use the Scratch programming language to build toys that can move around based on their program. Scratch is a drag-and-drop language that is often used as a tool to ...

Thanks to the new book Super Scratch Programming Adventure: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games , by The LEAD Project (No Starch Press, 2012), written with the MIT Media Lab , both adults and ...