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

MIT's Media Lab is gearing up for Scratch Day 2009, to introduce new people to their programming language for kids.

Do we need a new beginning programming language? My answer is “yes”, and the more programming languages and tools we have to introduce programming to kids, adults and everyone else, the better.

The only kids’ programming language worth using, Scratch, just celebrated the launch of Scratch 3.0, an update that adds some interesting new functionality to the powerful open-source tool. The ...