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.

For the last few summers, I’ve been helping kids learn to program during some week-long coding camps. I’ve tried out a number of programming tools and methods, and I continue to look for new resources ...

In an interview with Mitchel Resnick, who leads the group at MIT that develops Scratch, Amanda Sandler, CS First Program Manager asked Mitchell to explain main new features of the new Scratch 3.0 ...