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Re:Scratch Helps Kids Get With the Program by danteembermage on Thursday May 14, 2009 @11:15AM (#608873)
There are some grown-ups who play with scratch too; on the project page they have a numerical procedure for speeding up the built in functions like square root and sin to implement collisions off round objects.
Re:Scratch Helps Kids Get With the Program by andresmh on Thursday May 14, 2009 @02:00PM (#609258)
You're right, there's a good number of adults. Check out the age distribution chart at http://blog.scratch.mit.edu/2009/01/now-blogging.html