They remain uncomfortable/unskilled with source code and text editors. I am finding very little about how to teach kids real programming where they need to write a program from scratch.

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MIT's Media Lab is gearing up for Scratch Day 2009, to introduce new people to their programming language for kids.

Ten years ago, a computer programming language called Scratch emerged from the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.