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 programmer, I'm also a big fan of any program that makes ...

We will make a simple version of the Apple Catching game as follows: When starting the game, apples will randomly fall from above, the player's task is to move the bowl to catch them by pressing the ...

The online eduction platform EdX is offering a Massive Open Online Course in computer science using Scratch. In a recent article Why Teaching Code Matters, Dorien Zandbergen makes a case for promoting ...

How do I learn to program with Scratch? Scratch is an interactive environment tool created by MIT to help them teach programming concepts. You get a stage, with cartoon characters, and drag blocks ...

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From the name Cat and Mouse, you can grasp the structure of this game. So let's start programming this game. To make the game more interesting, the first thing to do is to choose a background. You can ...

The moment my daughter created her first project in Scratch – a simple animation of a cat chasing a butterfly – her relationship with the computer transformed completely. Suddenly, she wasn’t just ...

Mark Gibbs explores Scratch and StarLogo, programming systems implements the metaphor for Google’s forthcoming App Inventor Last week I was discussing Android applications and concluded by mentioning ...

Probably both. Scratch is a new program from the MIT Media Lab that lets students (and anyone else who wants to play with funky sprites and interesting bits of code) easily create and share animations ...