The course isn't quite for total beginners as it assumes people have done a little programming in JavaScript or played around with the MIT-developed Scratch visual programming language aimed at kids.

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 partners are working on an open source version of the language called "Scratch Blocks" based on Blockly, Google's own visual programming code ... creating Scratch 3.0 based on the Blocks ...