Sometimes hobbies grow to become much more than hobbies. Some children who are in the school play in fifth grade may decide to study drama in college. After college they may return to their ...

Google and MIT are joining forces to deliver Scratch Blocks, a new and improved variant of the programming language for children. The programming language is open on developer preview, and young ...

The MIT Media Lab recently released ScratchJr, a free iPad app that helps children 5-8 learn how to code. The app is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab, Tufts University, and Playful Invention ...

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 ...

Juni Learning wants to give every kid access to a quality education in computer programming. The company, part of Y Combinator’s latest batch of startups, is taking the same approach that turned ...

The skills involved in programming are in many ways a lesson in life. Coding requires both logical and creative thinking which in turn lead to a greater ability to solve problems. Technology is ...

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 ...

MADISON (WKOW) — Kids had the opportunity to bring their imaginations to life through a computer programming class at the Madison Children's Museum Saturday. Participants learned how to make ...

Scratch has the same user interface as ScratchJr but it is designed with more advanced features and is suitable for kids aged 8 and up. It is designed to introduce them to the fundamentals of ...

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. The new ...

A new one-hour programming tutorial lets students understand better how to build something as sophisticated as the wildly popular Minecraft game. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

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 ...