Mitchel Resnick, an MIT professor, developed Scratch, computer coding for kids, that allows children to create and share stories, games and animations, and is attracting more girls to coding.

And after they were done, the children shared their results with each other. They were part of a worldwide event called Scratch Day, a door-opener to computer programming.

Scratch is intended for beginners & children, It is a free, interactive, visual block based programming language that helps you learn computer programming without writing code.

On January 2, our group at the MIT Media Lab introduced a new generation of Scratch, called Scratch 3.0. Much has changed since we introduced the first generation of our Scratch programming language ...

I downloaded and installed Scratch on my own computer to follow along with the first few program challenges and I was laughing at how much fun it was to program this way!

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

Lesson Plan for Middle School Computer Science using Scratch and Vernier Sensor Prepared by Jessica Brewer, K12 Outreach Coordinator, Purdue CS ...

Ten years ago, a computer programming language called Scratch emerged from the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

On the screen at the front of the room, the cat was getting across the road too easily despite the big blue dog and the automobile traffic. At the console across the room, computer science professor ...

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