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

We figure his example provides everything you need to get just about any type of sensor up and running, be it a magnetometer or LDR (both of which would make a nice burglar-alarm type project).

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 ...

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.

With SPIKE Prime, students can use the Scratch programming language to build toys that can move around based on their program. Scratch is a drag-and-drop language that is often used as a tool to ...

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 ...

For more details on the new Scratch 3.0 block-based programming language jump over to the official website by following the link below. Source: S3 : Google ...