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 called ...

In an interview with Mitchel Resnick, who leads the group at MIT that develops Scratch, Amanda Sandler, CS First Program Manager asked Mitchell to explain main new features of the new Scratch 3.0 ...

How often do you read the words “fun”, “engaging” and “computer programming” in the same sentence? Thanks to the new book Super Scratch Programming Adventure: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games, by ...

Scratch 3.0, a visual language programming language from MIT Media Lab, can now run on the official Raspberry Pi operating system, Raspbian. But you'll probably need a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB of RAM ...

Scratch is a programming language learning environment enabling beginners to get results without having to learn syntactically correct writing first. Created by the MIT Media Lab, it is intended to ...

Does the world need a new beginner’s programming language? In the 1960s, BASIC, FORTRAN, LISP and ALGOL were the primary introductory programming languages. In the 1970s and 1980s, Pascal, C, ...

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[Kevin Osborn] is making it a bit easier for young programmers to write programs that interact with the physical world. The device he’s holding in the picture is an Arduino based accelerometer and ...

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 mentioning ...

As a homeschooling parent, I'm a big fan of educational software and I've written quite about about various programs in the past. But, as a programmer, I'm also a big fan of any program that makes ...

The Web 2.0 edition of Logo has arrived, and its name is Scratch. Scratch is a new free programming tool from MIT's Media Lab that lets anyone new to programming, young or old, learn the essentials ...