The introductory programming language Scratch is on the cusp of having its 2 millionth project uploaded to its website. That's an impressive number, and one that points not just to the widespread ...

In an interview with Mitchel Resnick, who leads the group at MIT that develops Scratch, Amanda Sandler, CS First Program Manager asked Mitchell to explain main new features of the new Scratch 3.0 ...

Ten years ago, a computer programming language called Scratch emerged from the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Using stackable icons to represent the sequencing and logic of ...

The free, open-source Scratch programming language, developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab by a team led by Mitchel Resnick, has found great popularity around the world as a ...

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, ...

[Kevin Osborn] is making it a bit easier for young programmers to write programs that interact with the physical world. The device he’s holding in the picture is an Arduino based accelerometer and ...

VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) - Ben Franklin seventh-grader Logan Ozdyk has wanted to be a computer programmer since he was in third grade. He says anyone can learn the basics of computer coding with an easy ...

Kickstarter-funded educational programming app is inspired by the Scratch language used in schools around the world The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has released a new iPad app that ...

Scratch is a programming language learning environment enabling beginners to get results without having to learn syntactically correct writing first. Created by the MIT Media Lab, it is intended to ...