Scratch, an educational programming environment

[Dave Allen Barker Jr]

Here's a pointer to an educational computer programming environment, Scratch.

So far, I know it's being used at Sagamore with the Coding Club (currently, some fifth graders working weekly after school with Mr Barnes?) and at a past Science Night in the computer/stem lab (by an outside vendor).

You can use it with your kids too!

• At the Scratch website, https://scratch.mit.edu/ , you can use the Scratch programming environment.  Best of all, you can browser others' creations, then see and modify the code that makes them work.  (Requires Flash)
  
• ScratchJr, at http://www.scratchjr.org/ , provides a version for younger programmers that works on tablets (iOS only at this time (Android and web in the works)).
• The Scratch Help page is a great place to start, including Scratch resources for educators.
  

On 12/11/2014 03:42 PM, Kevin Bender wrote:

Dave,

I'm not sure if you've ever checked out an iPad app called ScratchJr, but it is a good tool for helping beginners understand the logic of computer programming through object-oriented design. 

Matthew and I have used it at home a bit and he seems interested enough to keep his attention, might be something good to load onto the iPads at the school versus standard games I hear they use frequently in their free time.

Thanks for all the work you do with the kids, they are getting exposure to some cool stuff.

Best regards,

Kevin Bender