Learn programming with Scratch on a Mac Don’t be fooled into underestimating Scratch. The blocks are similar to commands you’ll find in programming languages.

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.

Her classmate, 7-year-old Aiden Crott, adds, "I like making the background and then making the program and make the guy move around everywhere." Scratch Jr was inspired by the popular Scratch ...

Scratch is a studio designed to teach kids programming concepts, but you can use it to build interactive stories and basic games.

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 ...

Scratch Day is a global network of events that celebrates Scratch, a computer language that helps young people with simple programming to create interactive stories, games, animation and musical ...

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 ...