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 ...

Well, I was taught “structured programming” with blocks like Scratch uses drawn at the blackboard, back in the 90s at a community college. ... 1 perform a simple intended function.

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 ...

It includes dozens of new sprites, a totally new sound editor, and many new programming blocks. And with Scratch 3.0, you are able to create and play projects on your tablet, ...

As I understand it Scratch was intended as transitional to text programming. While it has visual blocks, it reads/scans like c/java. It is object oriented with scripts attached to actors (sprites ...

Meet Scratch Blocks, a synergy of MIT’s and Google’s visual programming languages that will teach young children Google has joined MIT in its efforts to get kids interested in the technical field.

As a parent of three technically savvy kids I find it disturbing that we haven’t even “scratched” the surface of Scratch, an amazing, object-oriented programming language from the MIT Media ...

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 ...

A new book from No Starch Press, Super Scratch Programming Adventure!: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games makes it even easier to teach your kids basic programming skills.