Scratch Day is a global network of events that celebrates Scratch, a computer language that helps young people with simple programming to create interactive stories, games, animation and musical ...

Learning with Scratch Most of Jeff Elkner's students are learning English as a second language. Creating animated stories with Scratch helps them practice their vocabulary words.

Scratch was created to allow young (and young at heart), beginning programmers to create applications, games, animations and interactive stories.

Computer programming is not usually taught to 8-year-olds. But a new system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology turns building video games into child’s play. The system is ...

The designers were inspired to create Scratch because of the difficulties involved in teaching programming to young children—Scratch is designed for kids aged eight and up.

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 ...

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 ...

Ten years ago, a computer programming language called Scratch emerged from the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.