“Kids are learning to code. But more importantly, they are coding to learn,” said Mitch Resnick in a recent TED Talk presentation, “Let’s Teach Kids to Code.” Resnick is Director of the MIT Media Lab ...

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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 ...

“Scratch is a lot of fun. We can make our own video games.” “It lets them be creative and enjoy using concepts like math.” “It allows student to implement math and creative concepts, so they actually ...

How old were you when you first wrote small programs from scratch? In what grade were you first taught about writing programs from scratch? Or were you ever formally taught how? When, in your opinion, ...

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 ...