I taught a week-long camp last summer titled ‘Beginning Game Programming” — I had a morning session (8am-12pm) and an afternoon session (1pm-5pm), and each class had 16 kids anxious to learn some new ...

For the last few summers, I’ve been helping kids learn to program during some week-long coding camps. I’ve tried out a number of programming tools and methods, and I continue to look for new resources ...

This resource is the first in a series of five lessons that introduces students to the concepts of programming in Scratch. This comprehensive resource provides a teacher PowerPoint and a student ...

This resource is the second in a series of five lessons that introduces students to the concepts of programming in Scratch. This resource is perfect for introducing students to the critical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scratch, the world's largest coding platform for children, takes a peer-focused approach to engaging young people of all ...

Scratch is a popular animation and interactive tool used to teach programming techniques. It's aimed at children, but can be used by anybody to learn programming. Here's how to use Scratch to learn ...

Mitch Resnik, the creator of the super-simple Scratch programming language and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, gave a TEDx talk about the value of coding and computer ...

As a homeschooling parent, I'm a big fan of educational software and I've written quite about about various programs in the past. But, as a programmer, I'm also a big fan of any program that makes ...