Students can find a lot of information on Scratch online, of course, but for structured training that is also entertaining, Super Scratch Programming Adventure will make a great textbook.

A new book from No Starch Press, Super Scratch Programming Adventure!: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games makes it even easier to teach your kids basic programming skills.

Google is teaming up with MIT's Media Lab to create Scratch Blocks, an updated version of the kid-centric programming language.

Scratch was created to allow young (and young at heart), beginning programmers to create applications, games, animations and interactive stories.

MIT is teaming up with Google to create the next generation of its popular visual programming language "Scratch." The partners are working on an open source version of the language called "Scratch ...