A nation wide program...4000 kids...game developers....with Scratch.
What are the challenges? What are the pedagogical and technical approach to implement it?
Documents with sample code for lots of Scratch implementations of APCS topics. I just finished using these with my APCS class (they have no prior programming experience).
This year, the code::XtremeApps:: competition in Singapore held a workshop in the Junior Category for children under 12 to learn to program Scratch stories about environmental awareness.
A set of activities in which students have all of the "pieces" of the code and they have to figure out how to assemble them to get the program to do the described task.
Contributed by Richard Goyette, September 12, 2010
Do you want to control a robot of your design/choice with Scratch? Don't have the budget for the real thing but could use a simulator? Give Itchbots a try...
Contributed by Christopher Hampson, September 07, 2010
SCRATCH elegantly meets a deep need within many urban schools: a tool that allows students to create with computers. But how do we use it? This resource suggests six strategies for getting started.