How to learn programming with Scratch on a Mac: Installing Scratch on a Mac There are two versions of Scratch: Scratch 2.0 is an online web-based editor that you can run on your Mac.

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.

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.

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 ...

A new book from No Starch Press, Super Scratch Programming Adventure!: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games makes it even easier to teach your kids basic programming skills.

Scratch provides visual programming constructs and blocks for building program logic and flow. To create programs, you just snap together blocks.

Patrice Gans, a technology teacher and library-media specialist in Connecticut, reviews Super Scratch Programming Adventure (No Starch Press, 2012).

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 ...