


There’s also a ScratchJr for those ages 5-7. Scratch is a free resource and backed by the LEGO Foundation, Google, Intel, and others. It expresses during those early years the creative reasoning in the brain that are essential skills for a computer programmer, or really any profession for that matter, where you have to picture things in your mind and then create it on the screen. What I like about Scratch, is that it is a great starting point for a young child (6 – 11) to get exposed to the logic of coding and how it works. The user can then share their projects with the Scratch online community. Scratch has the goal of allowing a child to learn programming logic through their own interactive stories and animations. It is a coding drag/drop program that was developed and sponsored by MIT and the Lifelong Kindergarten group. Scratch (MIT) Scratch has been around for a while now and is geared towards kids ranging in ages 8 years all the way to 16 years old.
