I Programmer's contribution to Computer Science Education Week is an exploration of Scratch, MIT's free visual programming language that has been designed for teaching programming to young beginners.

This is a manual for the students to follow. Very little input required from the teacher, as all instructions with pictures for assistance are included in this 12 page document.

The best way to demonstrate is, of course, via a demonstration. So let's create that other simple common basic demo program and bounce a ball around the screen. This isn't difficult but the simplest ...

This resource is the first in a series of five lessons that introduces students to the concepts of programming in Scratch. This comprehensive resource provides a teacher PowerPoint and a student ...