You get a stage, with cartoon characters, and drag blocks around to control them. Scratch is easy to use, and generally fun. Here’s how to use it to learn programming and coding on a Mac.

According to BlockLike.js creator Ron Ilan, while Scratch does a great job enabling the learning experience, the gap with text-based programming remains large.

Calvin also hosted an Imaginary Worlds Camp for 23 sixth - through-12 th- grade boys the previous week. Midway through the girls’ camp, 11-year-old Evelyn Pae, a sixth-grader at Central Woodlands ...

Provide a brief tutorial on Scratch interface and basic features (can even use the built in ones through Scratch). Hands-on activity: Create a simple Scratch project to move a sprite. Day 2: Basics of ...

One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like ...

The only kids’ programming language worth using, Scratch, just celebrated the launch of Scratch 3.0, an update that adds some interesting new functionality to the powerful open-source tool.

Called Scratch, it's not so much a procedural language as an environment for creating interactive animations, annotated stories, slideshows, prototypes and games. It's designed to be as simple to ...

Scratch is a free coding platform developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab that uses graphic blocks for programming.