Take, for example, Scratch. It's a graphical drag-and-drop programming tool that takes out the risk of syntax errors.

Scratch saves its finished files in its own .SB format, but users can upload their finished products to the Scratch home page with the click of a button, a very Web 2.0 addition.

Super Scratch Programming Adventure! was written by the LEAD Project (Learning through Engineering, Art and Design), which began in 2005 as a collaboration among The Hong Kong Federation of Youth ...

According to BlockLike.js creator Ron Ilan, while Scratch does a great job enabling the learning experience, the gap with text-based programming remains large.

Scratch Day 2009 – Computer Programming for Kids Community Voices By Phil Shapiro, May 7, 2009 4:10 am PDT ...

Scratch provides visual programming constructs and blocks for building program logic and flow. To create programs, you just snap together blocks.

Kids around the world are using Scratch to program their own interactive stories, games, animations, and simulations with Scratch — and sharing their creations with one another online.

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 ...

Grásta pupils Scratch the surface of their potential with new programme Participants who completed a Scratch Computer Programming Course in Grasta Christian School.

Mitch Resnik, the creator of the super-simple Scratch programming language and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, gave a TEDx talk about the value of coding and computer ...