Patrice Gans, a technology teacher and library-media specialist in Connecticut, reviews Super Scratch Programming Adventure (No Starch Press, 2012).

On May 16, 2009, learn more about Scratch, the free programming tool for kids.

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

Scratch Jr was inspired by the popular Scratch programming language for older kids. Developers say they redesigned the interface and programming language to make it appropriate for younger children.

In a sea of coding-for-kids products, an update to Anki’s holiday-shopping darling, Cozmo the robot, may have one of the best chances of success. Read on.

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.

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.

The Arduino-based Kamibot, however, teaches kids how to code using Scratch, while offering fun customization with papercraft skins.