Scratch may look simple, but this building-block programming language appropriately may help you learn the fundamental building blocks of other languages.

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 ...

Learn programming with Scratch on a Mac Don’t be fooled into underestimating Scratch. The blocks are similar to commands you’ll find in programming languages.

Do we need a new beginning programming language? My answer is “yes”, and the more programming languages and tools we have to introduce programming to kids, adults and everyone else, the better.

MIT Media Lab's Scratch 3 programming language is now available to install on Raspberry Pi.

Tip #1 Logo Still Rocks When my oldest son Cy was four we started writing some Logo programs on the iPad using Mad Logo and making some animations using the kids programming language Scratch.

It doesn't hurt that Scratch is 100 percent free to download and use, either! Kids can install it on Windows, Mac, and Linux machines after downloading from scratch.mit.edu.

The device he’s holding in the picture is an Arduino based accelerometer and distance sensor meant for the Scratch language. Scratch is a programming language developed at MIT.

MIT’s programming language Scratch–launched by Mitch Resnick, director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group–has been upgraded to version 2.0.

Scratch has strong ties to LOGO, another programming language out of MIT, that was very popular a few years back.” Granat said she became familiar with Scratch about five or six years ago, and ...

This article is more than 12 years old. Maddy Petrovich, 14, of Wellesley, Mass. first started learning how to use the programming language Scratch when she was 10 years old. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) ...