[OLPC-Philippines] CACM article: Scratch: Programming for All

rayb at apc.edu.ph rayb at apc.edu.ph
Thu Nov 26 01:59:42 EST 2009


Hi, all,

The cover story of the November issue of Communications of the ACM is about the Scratch visual programming environment: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/11/48421-scratch-programming-for-all/fulltext

Scratch is one of the activities installed on the XO.  A related package is Etoys --mentioned in the article but not discussed further.  About all I know of these packages is that both are implemented in Squeak Smalltalk and both enable multimedia authoring.  So I ask those in the know: which would be better for introducing programming to middle school or high school kids?

Best,

Ray


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