In the hardware domain where you’re using turntables, CDJs or some other controller built for the job, creating scratch effects is easy to understand. We’ve loaded up a hip-hop loop and our ...

Since the computer program Scratch became public in 2007, a worldwide network of over 5 million registered Scratchers — primarily elementary and middle school students — has grown together ...

How Scratch works Scratch is an object-oriented language designed to be simple enough for anyone to use. Instead of writing commands out, users select commands that come with the program.

The Scratch software was able to read the resistance of that circuit and make a cartoon cat grow or shrink in proportion, depending on where on the line Silver placed the pencil.

On May 16, 2009, learn more about Scratch, the free programming tool for kids.

Though endless commercial firms tried to push their products into schools, or to guilt-trip parents into buying their software, Scratch gathered a global audience of millions by word of mouth.

The top block tells the program to start when you press the Go flag (part of the Scratch environment). The purple launch and landing sounds are just recordings located on the computer.

As a homeschooling parent, I'm a big fan of educational software and I've written quite about about various programs in the past. But, as a programmer, I'm also a big fan of any program that makes ...