Scratch saves its finished files in its own .SB format, but users can upload their finished products to the Scratch home page with the click of a button, a very Web 2.0 addition.

The main problem with programming languages is that the really useful ones are a little too abstract for kids. BASIC or some scripting language is probably more appropriate, but there’s usually ...

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.

TL;DR: As of Sept. 25, you can get the 2023 Coding with Scratch Programming Bundle for just $25 instead of $1,000 — that's a 97% discount. If you’re brand new to coding, this bundle of five ...

The software, available free online, is being used by schools and some colleges to teach basic computer-science concepts while avoiding scary programming jargon. Students have used Scratch to ...

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.

Granat told The Times in Munster (https://bit.ly/1E2sMjQ ) that Scratch is an educational programming language from Massachusetts Institute of Technology aimed at third grade and older.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A new language from MIT’s Media Lab makes it easy for kids to develop programs that interact with things in the real world: Pencils, paper, water, and even vegetables.

Mark Gibbs explores Scratch and StarLogo, programming systems implements the metaphor for Google’s forthcoming App Inventor Last week I was discussing Android applications and concluded by ...