These days, you are more likely to sneak kids into programming via Scratch — a system for setting up programs via blocks in a GUI. Again, you can get simple results simply. With Scratch or Basic ...

So you’re secretly learning object-orientated programming ... Now click the Green Flag icon to run the program. Scratch Cat will say Hello.

I started learning programming ... putting together a program, well, you've got a winner. That's why I'm so impressed with a new release from No Starch Press titled Super Scratch Programming ...

A new book from No Starch Press, Super Scratch Programming Adventure!: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games ... filaments of radio-wave-emitting particles, run through our galaxy, and one of ...

As a parent of three technically savvy kids I find it disturbing that we haven’t even “scratched” the surface of Scratch ... own programming “blocks” and add new logic to your programs ...

Lego Group's Lillan Spiertz says that when she talks to young girls, many of them think machines and robots are something that only boys play with. She wants to change that perception, and instead ...

Three words define the goals of Scratch: imagine, program, share. Scratch provides visual programming constructs and blocks for building program logic and flow. To create programs, you just snap ...

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 ...

Those are the words we need to be hearing from our youth. I love hearing, “I’ve got ideas for improving my Scratch program,” or “my friend showed me some neat tricks in Scratch.” ...

Later this year, it plans to expand Code Lab to allow more complex actions, as it’s built off MIT’s Scratch programming language. Anki claims that anything you can program on Python you’ll ...