Scratch was created to allow young (and young at heart), beginning programmers to create applications, games, animations and interactive stories.

Scratch Day is a global network of events that celebrates Scratch, a computer language that helps young people with simple programming to create interactive stories, games, animation and musical ...

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.

That doesn't surprise Karen Brennan, a Scratch project leader at MIT's Media Lab, where Scratch was developed. "Our agenda isn't to create armies of programmers," Brennan says.

The Scratch software was able to read the resistance of that circuit and make a cartoon cat grow or shrink in proportion, depending on where on the line Silver placed the pencil.

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BlockLike.js is an educational JavaScript library that attempts to extend the block-based Scratch learning experience to JavaScript text-based programming.