Scratch was launched in May 2007 after a previous existence as Squeak. There are some similarities to StarLogo (produced by some of the same team at MIT) but Scratch throws away much of the legacy of Logo in favour of the creation of streamlined programming environment for creating sophisticated sprite based applications. Some relevant links are listed below but please email us with any links you think we should include here.
The Scratch website at http://scratch.mit.edu is the main Scratch portal and contains forums, a portal for contributing and downloading projects and the Scracth software itself which is free to download.
A related MIT project is StarLogo which uses the blocks metaphor to create Logo programs. We prefer MSWLogo for teaching young programmers and have our own pages full of resources for parents and teaches to teach children Logo programming.
These pages have resources for learning Scratch:
Scratch for Budding Computer Scientists is a five page review of experiences teaching Scratch to youngsters concluding that Scratch is a viable introduction to computer programming.
Sratch Proposal paper from MIT with details of inspiration from computer clubhouse activities.
Grey Walter Thompson ...
Subsumption Architecture ...
Bratenberg ...
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