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.

Learn Scratch programming on a Mac There are lots of resources for learning how to use Scratch. These can help you get started with programming, and explain complex programming concepts in an ...

Take, for example, Scratch. It's a graphical drag-and-drop programming tool that takes out the risk of syntax errors. Just removing that little bit of frustration alone would have been an ...

Programming with Scratch by Mike Diehl. on June 29, 2010. As a homeschooling parent, I'm a big fan of educational software and I've written quite about about various programs in the past. But, as a ...

Super Scratch Programming Adventure! was written by the LEAD Project (Learning through Engineering, Art and Design), which began in 2005 as a collaboration among The Hong Kong Federation of Youth ...

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 ...

Adams was demonstrating a game he made via Scratch, a program invented by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Scratch teaches the basic skills of computer programming, and the seven ...

As a parent of three technically savvy kids I find it disturbing that we haven’t even “scratched” the surface of Scratch, an amazing, object-oriented programming language from the MIT Media ...

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 ...

Adams was demonstrating a game he made via Scratch, a program invented by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Scratch teaches the basic skills of computer programming, and the seven ...