Scratch encourages its users to create their own projects and easily apply what they learn. Scratch allows its users to share their projects, which increases the exchange of their experiences. Scratch ...

I started learning programming in eighth grade. It was on my school's first Apple II and the program that most sticks in my head was a short BASIC routine that had a small square bouncing around ...

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 ...

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

On May 16, 2009, learn more about Scratch, the free programming tool for kids.