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A children's game out of the MIT laboratories, called Scratch, is made to help teach children the underlying principles of coding, though it is useful for. X. Dark Light Light.

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

Scratch is a programming language, created by MIT, that makes it easy to create interactive art, stories, simulations, and games. Explore your ideas and share your creations online. Acknowledgements ...

Depending on the context in which it is used, and the priorities of the educators (which includes those present in the classroom, lurking at home, or at their drawing boards or computer screens at an ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scratch, the creative coding platform for kids, announced today a five-year commitment from Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”), a leading investment firm focused on ...

The Scratch kids have to be self-motivated: Most use Scratch outside of school. No one makes them do it. All it took to get them going was for someone to introduce them to Scratch in the first place.