In a companion to Woodcock’s recent Coding Games in Scratch, readers are shown how to use the free programming language Scratch to create playful animations, games, and other programs. Woodcock ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...