MADISON (WKOW) — Kids had the opportunity to bring their imaginations to life through a computer programming class at the Madison Children's Museum Saturday. Participants learned how to make ...

The only kids’ programming language worth using, Scratch, just celebrated the launch of Scratch 3.0, an update that adds some interesting new functionality to the powerful open-source tool. The ...

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.

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

Kids learn by exploring, and that's what the book does well. It demonstrates proper usage of the Scratch application, but it never puts up walls and limits kids from exploring and tweaking and ...

A new book from No Starch Press, Super Scratch Programming Adventure!: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games makes it even easier to teach your kids basic programming skills.

Google has joined MIT in its efforts to get kids interested in the technical field. Meet Scratch Blocks, a synergy of MIT’s and Google’s visual programming languages that will teach young ...

As a parent of three technically savvy kids I find it disturbing that we haven’t even “scratched” the surface of Scratch, an amazing, object-oriented programming language from the MIT Media ...

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

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.