Scratch may look simple, but this building-block programming language appropriately may help you learn the fundamental building blocks of other languages.

Scratch is intended for beginners & children, It is a free, interactive, visual block based programming language that helps you learn computer programming without writing code.

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 ...

Along the way, Scratch helps programmers learn about loops, conditionals and event-driven programming. Scratch is written in Squeak (more about that in a moment) and is an open source project.

The clear instructions offer a straightforward introduction to the popular Scratch programming language.

Scratch is a block-based visual programming language and online community targeted primarily at those wishing to learn more about programming and coding.

The device he’s holding in the picture is an Arduino based accelerometer and distance sensor meant for the Scratch language. Scratch is a programming language developed at MIT.