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 – Learn computer programming. Scratch has been around for quite some time now. I was introduced to this tool by Harvard’s CS50x. Scratch calls itself a block-based visual programming ...

But experts involved in computer coding education lament that it remains a boy-dominated activity. Mitchel Resnick, an MIT professor, developed Scratch, a simplified computer programming language that ...

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.

Karen Brennan is a Harvard education professor and founder of ScratchEd, an online community of teachers using Scratch, a novice-friendly computer code developed at MIT. Rather than written commands, ...

Give kids a jumpstart in computer programming with these apps and online courses: ... Scratch is one of the first programming languages created for 8- to 16-year-olds. Web-based, free.

This computer programming app is so easy to use that even a kindergartener can do it. Researchers in Massachusetts have created a basic computer coding app that they say is the first designed ...

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 ...

More than a dozen young girls flocked to a free workshop in Crown Heights to learn computer coding on a program designed with kids in mind ...