One of the fun things about “old school” computers is that it was fairly easy to get kids into programming them. The old Basic interpreters were pretty forgiving, and you could do some clever things ...

US researchers have discovered that scratching an itch releases immune cells and produces inflammation, but also reduces bacteria on the skin. It could be one of the reasons why scratching an itch ...

You can run your bot on repl.it. To do so, click the download link at the top right corner of the website. Import these files in your repl.it project, and run the ...

The moment my daughter created her first project in Scratch – a simple animation of a cat chasing a butterfly – her relationship with the computer transformed completely. Suddenly, she wasn’t just ...

When Moshe Y. Vardi, Editor-in-Chief of Communications, invited us to submit an article, he recalled how he first learned about Scratch: “A colleague of mine (CS faculty),” he said, “told me how she ...

What’s common between a scratchy sweater, a mosquito bite, and poison ivy? A brush with any of them guarantees an itchy spot on the skin. Scratching that itch is extremely tempting because of how ...