When Moshe Y. Vardi, Editor-in-Chief of Communications, invited us to submit an article, he recalled how he first learned about Scratch: “A colleague of mine (CS faculty),” he said, “told me how she ...

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 ...

Scratch program or Scratch programming language for children is considered one of the most widespread programs as it is used in various countries of the world and in more than one language, including ...

Sometimes hobbies grow to become much more than hobbies. Some children who are in the school play in fifth grade may decide to study drama in college. After college they may return to their ...

We all know that education today is no longer limited to basic subjects such as mathematics, chemistry and physics, and therefore no longer depends on indoctrination and memorization; but education ...

“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 ...

Through a renewed interest around in-class computer programming, campaigns like the Hour of Code have brought active support to millions of users trying programming for the first time. A host of other ...

To write a beautiful program, breakdown solution to small pieces. This is called modular programming. Think of lego blocks which allow you to create whatever you imagine by interchanging lego blocks.

China’s enthusiasm for teaching children to code is facing a new roadblock as organizations and students lose an essential tool: the Scratch programming language developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten ...