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Scratch Alive

Scratch
KindProgramming language
Appeared2003
StatusAlive
CreatorMIT Media Lab
FamilyIndependent
Sourcescratch.mit.edu ↗

Logo's ideas as LEGO bricks — the blocks language that has taught more children to program than every text language combined.

Influenced by Logo Smalltalk
Created by Mitchel Resnick

MIT Media Lab's Scratch (2003) — Papert's constructionist heir — made programming drag-and-drop blocks: no syntax errors possible, a sharing community, and 100+ million kids' first language.\n\nIt is the most-used educational language ever — proof that lowering the floor matters more than raising the ceiling.

Sources

  1. scratch.mit.edu/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_(programming_language)