Perhaps the only online coding community that could compete with Scratch for kids’ attention is Minecraft, which aims to provide kids with a similar sense interest- and peer-based exploration.

Scratch Jr was inspired by the popular Scratch programming language for older kids. Developers say they redesigned the interface and programming language to make it appropriate for younger children.

Computer Programming And Coding For Kids By Christy Hinko Posted on April 2, 2016 According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average salary for a computer programmer was $77,550 per ...

It's based on MIT's Scratch programming language for kids. In the 1960s, Seymour Papert and other MIT researchers developed the first kids coding language, giving kids the ability to program the ...

Millions of kids have used it, and the simplicity of the tool is that it sneaks in real programming concepts and techniques in a fun, colorful manner. It doesn't hurt that Scratch is 100 percent ...

Patrice Gans, a technology teacher and library-media specialist in Connecticut, reviews Super Scratch Programming Adventure (No Starch Press, 2012).

Coding for kids can be an incredible hobby that can set your child up for success in their future. Whether that means laying a foundation for a (hopefully) lucrative career, an introduction into ...

Scratch provides visual programming constructs and blocks for building program logic and flow. To create programs, you just snap together blocks. The blocks have different shapes and colors so ...