What is a Programming Language? How it Works and How to Choose, Explained for Elementary and Middle School Students

"What is the difference between Scratch and Python?""Which programming language should I learn first?"When you look into ...
KQED

Scratch: Teaching the Difference Between Creating and Remixing

The introductory programming language Scratch is on the cusp of having its 2 millionth project uploaded to its website. That's an impressive number, and one that points not just to the widespread ...

Programming Education in the AI Era Starts with Scratch

I saw a very interesting post on X.It was about transferring an original game made in Scratch to a handheld game console ...
Computerworld

Scratch, Squeak, Alice and Go — programming for kids, adults and everyone else

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, ...
ZDNet

Raspberry Pi gets MIT’s Scratch 3 programming language for Raspbian

Scratch 3.0, a visual language programming language from MIT Media Lab, can now run on the official Raspberry Pi operating system, Raspbian. But you’ll probably need a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB of RAM ...
Computerworld

App Inventor, Scratch and Simple Programming

Last week I was discussing Android applications and concluded by mentioning Google’s new and, as yet, un-released programming tool for the Android operating system called App Inventor for Android ...