China’s enthusiasm for teaching children to code is facing a new roadblock as organizations and students lose an essential tool: the Scratch programming language developed by the Lifelong ...

Along the way, Scratch helps programmers learn about loops, conditionals and event-driven programming. Scratch is written in Squeak (more about that in a moment) and is an open source project.

Resnick sees learning to program computers as important to children in the 21st century as writing was in the past, stressing that they must ‘be able to create with new technologies’.

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

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

While there are many resources on the internet that offer tutorials and sample programs using Scratch, if you want to grab a kid's attention and teach them something, you're probably going to find ...

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

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