I started learning programming in eighth grade. It was on my school's first Apple II and the program that most sticks in my head was a short BASIC routine that had a small square bouncing around and ...

The following article is reprinted from the Today@PC World blog at PCWorld.com. Sometimes hobbies grow to become much more than hobbies. Some children who are in the school play in fifth grade may ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an interview with Mitchel Resnick, who leads the group at MIT that develops Scratch, Amanda Sandler, CS First Program Manager asked Mitchell to explain main new features of the new Scratch 3.0 ...