Computer programming is not usually taught to 8-year-olds. But a new system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology turns building video games into child’s play. The system is ...

MIT’s programming language Scratch–launched by Mitch Resnick, director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group–has been upgraded to version 2.0.

Scratch is a “sprite” based system. In this case sprites are objects that have as attributes one or more visual images called “costumes”, one or more sound samples, and one or more scripts.

Mark Gibbs explores Scratch and StarLogo, programming systems implements the metaphor for Google's forthcoming App Inventor ...

Do we need a new beginning programming language? My answer is “yes”, and the more programming languages and tools we have to introduce programming to kids, adults and everyone else, the better.

MIT itself is also creating Scratch 3.0 based on the Blocks it develops with Google, making the newest iteration more suitable for mobile devices. For all the latest news and updates from Google I ...

MIT Media Lab's Scratch 3 programming language is now available to install on Raspberry Pi. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Aug. 20, 2019 at 5:38 a.m. PT ...

Mitch Resnik, the creator of the super-simple Scratch programming language and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, gave a TEDx talk about the value of coding and computer ...