Programming by Choice: Urban Youth Learning Programming with Scratch

John Maloney; Kylie Peppler; Yasmin B. Kafai; Mitchel Resnick; Natalie Rusk

Annual Meeting of SIGCSE 2008 (March 2008)

This paper describes Scratch, a visual, block-based programming language designed to facilitate media manipulation for novice programmers. We report on the Scratch programming experiences of urban youth ages 8-18 at a Computer Clubhouse--an after...