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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

On May 16, 2009, learn more about Scratch, the free programming tool for kids.

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 ...

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

MIT is teaming up with Google to create the next generation of its popular visual programming language "Scratch." The partners are working on an open source version of the language called "Scratch ...

MIT's Media Lab is gearing up for Scratch Day 2009, to introduce new people to their programming language for kids.