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.

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 is a visual programming environment that aims to help kids learn the foundations of coding by creating interactive stories, games, and animations.

Provide a brief tutorial on Scratch interface and basic features (can even use the built in ones through Scratch). Hands-on activity: Create a simple Scratch project to move a sprite. Day 2: Basics of ...

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

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 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 ...