Scratch has strong ties to LOGO, another programming language out of MIT, that was very popular a few years back.” Granat said she became familiar with Scratch about five or six years ago, and ...

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 2009 – Computer Programming for Kids. Community Voices By Phil Shapiro, May 7, 2009 4:10 am PDT. Sometimes hobbies grow to become much more than hobbies.

Super Scratch Programming Adventure! was written by the LEAD Project (Learning through Engineering, Art and Design), which began in 2005 as a collaboration among The Hong Kong Federation of Youth ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A new language from MIT’s Media Lab makes it easy for kids to develop programs that interact with things in the real world: Pencils, paper, water, and even vegetables.

Scratch saves its finished files in its own .SB format, but users can upload their finished products to the Scratch home page with the click of a button, a very Web 2.0 addition.