The MIT Media Lab recently released ScratchJr, a free iPad app that helps children 5-8 learn how to code. The app is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab, Tufts University, and Playful Invention ...

Students will apply their knowledge of physical science concepts to create a lunar lander game using Scratch. They will use Vernier force and acceleration sensors to understand forces and integrate ...

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A computer coding tutorial program for eight to 13-year-olds was released five years ago – but now the team behind it is working on a version for three to eight-year-olds. Massachusetts Institute of ...

• Text-based programming languages like CSS, Java and Python, and block-based programming languages like Scratch, Scratch Jr and Snap.

Ten years ago, a computer programming language called Scratch emerged from the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Using stackable icons to represent the sequencing and logic of ...

But we think coding should be for everyone, just like writing.” Backed by the National Science Foundation, Code-to-Learn Foundation, Lego Foundation and BT the app is being marketed as a ‘code to ...