Monday, October 28, 2019

Learn to code for kids with Scratch

Scratch is a free programming language and online community, developed by MIT, for learning to code in a very simple way.
It's designed in a way that allows kids to understand how to build their own games or just create animations or interactive stories, using interlocking blocks to represent coding concepts.

Image source: ICTEDUMAG
There is also Scratch Junior, for kids from 5 to 7 years old, with blocks without words, just with symbols that the kids can associate with the coding concept.

It's fun and simple. Try it!

Google's Blocky

Scratch is a result of a collaboration between Google and MIT, and builds on Google’s Blockly technology. Blocky is a JavaScript library for building visual programming editors. It outputs syntactically correct code in the programming language of your choice.