Scratch is a creativity tool from the MIT Media lab that firms abstract programming concepts like recursion into snap-together puzzle pieces.
It is like a multimedia sandbox, where children eight and tip are welcomed as media producers, following the same philosophical blueprint that inspired software projects like Logo and Squeak.
Since it was introduced, demand for Scratch, which is available as a 36MB download, has swamped the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's servers.
The demand is helped by the price: Free with registration. The four years of development costs were covered by Intel and the National Science Foundation.
Scratch's drag-and-drop programming technique demands experimentation and the software's programmable objects, called sprites, can take on the form of your pet (log in a maze, or haiku words that self-narrate when clicked.
There is already an array of projects on the Scratch site that can be downloaded, modified and reposted, demonstrating that Scratch is as much about social networking as programming.
Future versions are in the works for mobile phones and portable computers, while the current download works fine on Macintosh OS X and Windows Vista, giving a free digital toolkit for anyone with a creative itch to scratch. - New York Times Special Features
For more information, logon http://scratch.mit.edu
It is like a multimedia sandbox, where children eight and tip are welcomed as media producers, following the same philosophical blueprint that inspired software projects like Logo and Squeak.
Since it was introduced, demand for Scratch, which is available as a 36MB download, has swamped the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's servers.
The demand is helped by the price: Free with registration. The four years of development costs were covered by Intel and the National Science Foundation.
Scratch's drag-and-drop programming technique demands experimentation and the software's programmable objects, called sprites, can take on the form of your pet (log in a maze, or haiku words that self-narrate when clicked.
There is already an array of projects on the Scratch site that can be downloaded, modified and reposted, demonstrating that Scratch is as much about social networking as programming.
Future versions are in the works for mobile phones and portable computers, while the current download works fine on Macintosh OS X and Windows Vista, giving a free digital toolkit for anyone with a creative itch to scratch. - New York Times Special Features
For more information, logon http://scratch.mit.edu
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