Holiday Help through SCRATCHing
A Logical, sequential, step by step method to achieve a goal. Options to involve music and sound and a variety of fun characters to play with. Cool animations, loads of effects and a chance to let your imagination go wild! That's Scratch programming for you! With their never-ending supply of energy and an orthogonal thought process, it is vital to get the middle schoolers engaged during the holidays. Keeping them safe from the clutches of the mobile phone and social media is even more of a priority. Although a healthy sport in the playground would serve them well, a programming tool to let loose their imagination seems to a safe bet, inspite of the added screen time. Scratch is a programming tool developed by the good fellows at MIT, which has been around for quite a long time. The newly upgraded scratch is user-friendly and very easy to use. A middleschooler would master it in a jiffy. Even if they have a hurdle, the super short, specific tutorials just make it so muc...
