Scratch

Scratch is an educational programming language that allows people of any experience background and age to experiment with the concepts of fully versatile computer programming by snapping together visual programming block to control images, music and sound. It is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab by a team led by Mitchel Resnick and first appeared in the summer of 2007. Scratch can be installed and freely redistributed on any Windows, Mac OS X or Linux computer. The source code is made available under a license that allows modifications for non-commercial uses. The Scratch environment is programmed in Squeak.

See also

• Wikipedia:Scratch (programming language)
• Scratch Wiki
• Google Blockly - Google version of the same thing