Scratch is intended for beginners & children, It is a free, interactive, visual block based programming language that helps you learn computer programming without writing code.

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 ...

Scratch is available for Mac OS X and Windows, and can be downloaded for free at scratch.mit.edu. Photo: Scratch team member and MIT grad student Jay Silver holds a Scratch-compatible PicoBoard.