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Re:MIT Scratch – Teach kids to program stories, games, and a... by sdg1 on Monday December 15, 2014 @06:12PM (#8755038)
(Member of the Scratch team here)

1) There's a super useful Scratch Curriculum guide - made by the folks from ScratchEd. http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/resources/scratch-curriculu...

2) Blockly seems to be under the Apache license (https://github.com/google/blockly)

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Re:MIT Scratch – Teach kids to program stories, games, and a... by hardmath123 on Monday December 15, 2014 @08:39PM (#8755496)
(5-year Scratch veteran here.)

Even though Blockly (and it's predecessor, "App Inventor") is made by Google (the great and the powerful), I have to say, I would rather be introduced to code by Scratch than by Blockly. Scratch is much simpler-looking, it has a beautiful interface, and (most importantly) it has one of the friendliest communities in case you need help or want to show off a project.

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