You get a stage, with cartoon characters, and drag blocks around to control them. Scratch is easy to use, and generally fun. Here’s how to use it to learn programming and coding on a Mac.

Provide a brief tutorial on Scratch interface and basic features (can even use the built in ones through Scratch). Hands-on activity: Create a simple Scratch project to move a sprite. Day 2: Basics of ...

Calvin also hosted an Imaginary Worlds Camp for 23 sixth - through-12 th- grade boys the previous week. Midway through the girls’ camp, 11-year-old Evelyn Pae, a sixth-grader at Central Woodlands ...

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 ...

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Mountain View Mayor Ken Rosenberg was on hand Monday at Edith Landels Elementary School to watch a Google team coach schoolchildren in computer programming. “I was just there to encourage the ...

If teaching “object-oriented” programming is critical, then using Java is not a bad choice. How easy is it to install, and does it run across platforms? These are things to keep in mind, especially if ...