A new version of the Scratch programming language for use on the iPad has been designed to help teach young kids, who may not yet have learned to read, to create programs using a touchscreen interface ...

I Programmer's contribution to Computer Science Education Week is an exploration of Scratch, MIT's free visual programming language that has been designed for teaching programming to young beginners.

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 ...