At the end of the book are three Bonus Stages that provide a bit more hands-on activities (programming activities), a nice tutorial on blending Scratch programming with the PicoBoard ...

Scratch may look simple, but this building-block programming language appropriately may help you learn the fundamental building blocks of other languages.

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.

On January 2, our group at the MIT Media Lab introduced a new generation of Scratch, called Scratch 3.0. Much has changed since we introduced the first generation of our Scratch programming language ...

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 ...

Scratch Day is a global network of events that celebrates Scratch, a computer language that helps young people with simple programming to create interactive stories, games, animation and musical ...

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 ...

Scratch is a studio designed to teach kids programming concepts, but you can use it to build interactive stories and basic games.

Scratch is a visually appealing and easy to use programming platform that is not only tremendous fun to learn, but also allows to painlessly reinforce key mathematics and computer science concepts ...

In addition to programming, Scratch also lets kids upload and share their projects through an online community at the Scratch website.