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 ...

Scratch comes with a number of example projects that provide a fairly broad sample of what can be done with Scratch. Once a user has created a program that they like, they can share their project with ...

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.

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

Anyone who's got a Raspberry Pi and kids will already know about the graphical, block-based Scratch programming language designed by MIT and aimed at young coders. Well, there's a new version out, ...