In a companion to Woodcock’s recent Coding Games in Scratch, readers are shown how to use the free programming language Scratch to create playful animations, games, and other programs. Woodcock ...

Students will apply their knowledge of physical science concepts to create a lunar lander game using Scratch. They will use Vernier force and acceleration sensors to understand forces and integrate ...

Scratch allows users to drag and drop blocks of instruction, to create interactive animations, games artwork, multimedia cards and stories.

"Many of the people who have shaped our digital world started out by coding games for fun," wrote Jon Woodcock, author of "Coding Games in Scratch," a coding language textbook.

Scratch is a free, easy-to-use programming language and online community that encourages kids to create and share their own interactive stories, games and animation projects.

Google wrote: With today’s Doodle -- the first coding Doodle ever -- we celebrate fifty years of coding languages for kids by “Coding for Carrots.” ...

Mitch Resnik, the creator of the super-simple Scratch programming language and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, gave a TEDx talk about the value of coding and computer ...