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This Scratch curriculum guide provides an introduction to creative computing with Scratch, using a design-based learning approach.

"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 to teach programming with the Scratch programming tool. Millions of kids have used it, and the simplicity of the tool is that it sneaks in real programming concepts and techniques in a fun, colorful manner."

I've created a number of structured Scratch assignment writeups including one for the little tree program pictured below.  Since I haven't really found any such resources (links appreciated!), I figured I'd share: Scratch assignments

Since 2007 Lero - the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre has been running an Education and Outreach Program to encourage students to discover and learn about computing and software development. We have developed Scratch lesson plans, to teach software development to students. Scratch is a visual programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art and share these creations on the web.

The 2012 Scratch competition has launched, which encourages primary and secondary school students to get involved with computing and software development. Run by the Irish software engineering research centre Lero and supported by the Irish Computer Society, the competition helps students learn how software is built and how it works. It encourages them to be creative with the software and shows what opportunities are available in the technology sector.

Welcome to the distribution center for BYOB (Build Your Own Blocks), an advanced offshoot of Scratch, a visual programming language primarily for kids from the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. This version, developed by Jens Mönig with design input and documentation from Brian Harvey, is an attempt to extend the brilliant accessibility of Scratch to somewhat older users-in particular, non-CS-major computer science students-without becoming inaccessible to its original audience. BYOB 3 adds first class lists, sprites, and procedures to BYOB's original contribution of custom blocks and recursion.

Blockly is a web-based, graphical programming language. Users can drag blocks together to build an application. No typing required.

Scratch / App Inventor like coding

Exploring Computer Science Assignments with Scratch

All of the software on your computer, from the games to the word processor and even the software to boot up the computer in the first place was created by a programmer, or most likely a team of programmers. 

Mr. V's Programming class.  Alice, Google Inventor, Java, and Scratch resources

Learning to code is one of the most powerful and satisfying things you can ever do. If you're a designer, learning to code can help you understand what you're creating for, and if you're looking to build a startup from scratch, being a technical founder can make things exponentially easier for you.

This site is dedicated to the students and teachers who want to learn Scratch. . To download all the video-tutorials and materials in this website, please submit your name and the mailing address of your school or institution through the 'Contact Us' link. You will receive a username and password that will allow you to login and download these materials. You will also find instructions on how to use these resources.

Installing a solid-state drive is one of the best upgrades you can make to your computer, but migrating your Windows installation to a small drive can be tricky, because your data won't necessarily all fit on the drive. Here's how to install an SSD without reinstalling Windows from scratch.

"This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0940932. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation."

A K-12/University partnership committed to democratizing computer science.