As a homeschooling parent, I'm a big fan of educational software and I've written quite about about various programs in the past. But, as a programmer, I'm also a big fan of any program that makes ...

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If you think you might have a future programmer on your hands, it's time to introduce your kid to Scratch. It's a programming language that teaches the concepts of programming to young kids while ...

In this eight-minute podcast, students in Karen Randall's 5th and 6th grade home room class at Expo Elementary School in St. Paul, Minnesota discuss their early experiences with Scratch, offer advice ...

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In the past, many computer journalists have tried to explain advanced concepts such as object-oriented programming by comparing the activity to building applications by connecting smaller components ...

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 ...

In an interview with Mitchel Resnick, who leads the group at MIT that develops Scratch, Amanda Sandler, CS First Program Manager asked Mitchell to explain main new ...

Sometimes hobbies grow to become much more than hobbies. Some children who are in the school play in fifth grade may decide to study drama in college. After college they may return to their ...

Scratch 3.0, a visual language programming language from MIT Media Lab, can now run on the official Raspberry Pi operating system, Raspbian. But you'll probably need a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB of RAM ...