As a homeschooling parent, I'm a big fan of educational software and I've written quite about about various programs in the past. But, as a programmer, I'm also a big fan of any program that makes ...
If you think you might have a future programmer on your hands, it's time to introduce your kid to Scratch. It's a programming language that teaches the concepts of programming to young kids while ...
Does the world need a new beginner’s programming language? In the 1960s, BASIC, FORTRAN, LISP and ALGOL were the primary introductory programming languages. In the 1970s and 1980s, Pascal, C, ...
How do I learn to program with Scratch? Scratch is an interactive environment tool created by MIT to help them teach programming concepts. You get a stage, with cartoon characters, and drag blocks ...
The following article is reprinted from the Today@PC World blog at PCWorld.com. Sometimes hobbies grow to become much more than hobbies. Some children who are in the school play in fifth grade may ...
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 ...
The Web 2.0 edition of Logo has arrived, and its name is Scratch. Scratch is a new free programming tool from MIT's Media Lab that lets anyone new to programming, young or old, learn the essentials ...