Students and Scratch programmers patiently waiting for the official launch of the new Scratch 3.0 programming and visual coding environment, will be pleased to know that it has today officially ...

Anyone who's got a Raspberry Pi and kids will know about the graphical, block-based programming language designed by MIT and aimed at young coders. Well, there's a new version out, Scratch 3.0.

We’ll be keeping an eye out for the official release of Scratch 3.0 custom extension API, but anyone not afraid of working with fluid pre-release code are certainly welcome to dive in right now.

MIT Media Lab's Scratch 3 programming language is now available to install on Raspberry Pi.