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 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.

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

I find it hard to describe the Scratch “language” and programming in words (I’ve had my Lego Mindstorms robotics kit for years). The best way is to download Scratch and see for yourself.

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.

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 ...

Mark Gibbs explores Scratch and StarLogo, programming systems implements the metaphor for Google’s forthcoming App Inventor Last week I was discussing Android applications and concluded by ...