#1202 overall
Programming in Scratch
edX
1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2015 · score 0.7
An introductory edX course teaching programming with the Scratch visual language, using block-based coding to build games and animations. It is aimed at young learners and beginners.
Commenters use it alongside Scratch with a child, saying their 8-year-old is doing well and making many games through the course.
Programming Languagesbeginnerfreeinteractive MOOC#scratch#block-based programming#games#kids#introductory
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I taught my nephew (8 year old) about making games and he is doing really well. I suggest Scratch[0] as well. I also enrolled him in the edx Scratch course and so far he is doing great solving assignments and quizzes. Usually he gets stuck when he is not able to understand the question (English is third language to us) and he skips those and continues the course. And every alternate days I sit with him for 2-3 hours and explain him the questions. I also got a PDF of the book Super Scratch Programming Adventure [2] (dead tree version isn't available in my country) and he loves it so far. He has made many games, as part of course and also on his own. He is proud of his accomplishments and I think thats great.
[0] - https://scratch.mit.edu
[1] - https://www.edx.org/course/programming-scratch-harveymuddx-c...
[2] - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593275315