By John Glenday

‘Give me a child for his first seven years and I’ll give you the man’ seemed to work for the Jesuits as their maxim, something researchers at the Massachussets Institute of Technology have taken to heart when seeking to train a new generation of coders.

ScratchJr, a new ipad app, is the result. A Kickstarter funded educational tool designed to inspire schoolchildren to adopt the Scratch programming language and ‘code to learn’.

Designed for use by 5-7 year olds in tandem with the Playful Invention Company and Tufts University’s Developmental Technologies team, the free app guides pupils to program ‘interactive stories’ using Read full story ›

Source: The Drum