That's why I'm so impressed with a new release from No Starch Press titled Super Scratch Programming Adventure (SSPA, for short). SSPA offers up 10 Stages (chapters) that use a comic book format ...

Computer programming is not usually taught to 8-year-olds. But a new system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology turns building video games into child’s play. The system is ...

Scratch comes with a number of example projects that provide a fairly broad sample of what can be done with Scratch. Once a user has created a program that they like, they can share their project with ...

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Learn About Computer Architecture You may have learned the programming basics by now, but if you don’t know how to operate a computer fully, you can’t get started with programming. Get some idea bout ...

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.

Learning to program from a textbook can be tedious. However, the comic book presentation style of Super Scratch Programming Adventure creates an entertaining interactive experience for the reader.

Super Scratch Programming Adventure! was written by the LEAD Project (Learning through Engineering, Art and Design), which began in 2005 as a collaboration among The Hong Kong Federation of Youth ...