At the end of the book are three Bonus Stages that provide a bit more hands-on activities (programming activities), a nice tutorial on blending Scratch programming with the PicoBoard ...

On January 2, our group at the MIT Media Lab introduced a new generation of Scratch, called Scratch 3.0. Much has changed since we introduced the first generation of our Scratch programming language ...

And Scratch has the ability to grow with children and really become a hobby for them.” The Powerpuff Girls free coding tutorial is available here.

Scratch — https://scratch.mit.edu/ The precursor to the Scratch programming language was work that MIT did for Lego to create the Lego Mindstorms programming system.

The premise for both is the same: instead of text, Scratch uses interlocking colored blocks to mimic the logical structures and functions of a typical grown-up programming language.

Mitch Resnik, the creator of the super-simple Scratch programming language and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, gave a TEDx talk about the value of coding and computer ...