Do we need a new beginning programming language? My answer is “yes”, and the more programming languages and tools we have to introduce programming to kids, adults and everyone else, the better.

ScratchJr is a new version of the Scratch programming language designed for children ages five to seven. Using ScratchJr, kids can build their own animated stories, interactive games, collages ...

China’s enthusiasm for teaching children to code is facing a new roadblock as organizations and students lose an essential tool: the Scratch programming language developed by the Lifelong ...

MIT is teaming up with Google to create the next generation of its popular visual programming language "Scratch." The partners are working on an open source version of the language called "Scratch ...

Rated 4.5 on iTunes. Blockly Kids older than 10 years and adults who aren't fond of cartoons and the like, may find Blockly, Google's refinement of Scratch, better suited for learning code.

Today on the Google home page is a special interactive Google Doodle that helps kids learn how to code. It is to celebrate 50 years since kids programming languages during the Computer Science ...

Developed in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and Tufts University’s DevTech Research Group, the new free PBS KIDS ScratchJr App helps kids learn coding concepts as they create their own ...

The original Scratch programming language is already used by millions of older kids, but it was too complicated for younger kids.

Scratch may look simple, but this building-block programming language appropriately may help you learn the fundamental building blocks of other languages.

A free offering from the not-for-profit Scratch Foundation, ScratchJr uses the popular Scratch programming language as its engine. Kids 5 and older crack the code of programming by designing their ...

Rather than having kids pick up a language like Python or Java (as you would in a college or AP Computer Science class), Code Studio teaches the underlying concepts in programming through the ...

Later this year, it plans to expand Code Lab to allow more complex actions, as it’s built off MIT’s Scratch programming language.