Probably both. Scratch is a new program from the MIT Media Lab that lets students (and anyone else who wants to play with funky sprites and interesting bits of code) easily create and share animations ...

Scratch 3.0, a visual language programming language from MIT Media Lab, can now run on the official Raspberry Pi operating system, Raspbian. But you'll probably need a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB of RAM ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google's annual developer conference doesn't officially kick off until Wednesday but about 120 of the company's youngest developers are already getting to preview one of its ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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Anyone who's got a Raspberry Pi and kids will already know about the graphical, block-based Scratch programming language designed by MIT and aimed at young coders. Well, there's a new version out, ...

Mark Gibbs explores Scratch and StarLogo, programming systems implements the metaphor for Google’s forthcoming App Inventor Last week I was discussing Android applications and concluded by mentioning ...

In the past, many computer journalists have tried to explain advanced concepts such as object-oriented programming by comparing the activity to building applications by connecting smaller components ...

If you think you might have a future programmer on your hands, it's time to introduce your kid to Scratch. It's a programming language that teaches the concepts of programming to young kids while ...