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Scratch: programming for all

Authors: Mitchel Resnick, John Maloney, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Natalie Rusk, Evelyn Eastmond, Karen Brennan, Amon Millner, Eric Rosenbaum, Jay Silver, Brian Silverman, Yasmin Kafai

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"Digital fluency" should mean designing, creating, and remixing, not just browsing, chatting, and interacting.

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Communications of the ACM Volume 52, Issue 11

Scratch Programming for All

November 2009

135 pages

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