What Is Scratch? Scratch, as mentioned, is a programming tool that was built as a free-to-use way to teach young people to work with code.The idea was to offer a visually engaging platform that ...

If you want to try a Scratch-inspired take on microcontroller programming, check out MicroBlocks. It will work with several common boards, including the micro:bit and the Raspberry Pi Pico.

When Moshe Y. Vardi, Editor-in-Chief of Communications, invited us to submit an article, he recalled how he first learned about Scratch: “A colleague of mine (CS faculty),” he said, “told me how she ...

Scratch Day 2009 – Computer Programming for Kids. Community Voices By Phil Shapiro, May 7, 2009 4:10 am PDT. Sometimes hobbies grow to become much more than hobbies.

Scratch, the user-friendly and free coding program, provides young students with the opportunity to learn to code and create a wide variety of animated creations. Scratch is quite robust, allowing ...

The only kids’ programming language worth using, Scratch, just celebrated the launch of Scratch 3.0, an update that adds some interesting new functionality to the powerful open-source tool.

The system is called Scratch, named after a method that hip-hop DJ’s use to mix music. The software, available free… Computer programming is not usually taught to 8-year-olds.

Python. Scratch is great for learning the basics of programming, but sooner or later you're going to run into its limitations. Now we're going to take a look at a popular general-purpose language ...