Ignite Phoenix #5 - Computer Programming for Kids

Presenter: Jay McGavren

Biography: Im a Ruby on Rails developer and consultant. Im also the creator of the Zyps project, which is a Ruby library for game development.

Description: Scratch is a free visual programming language for kids created at MIT. It lets kids as young as 5-6 easily create interactive stories or games and share them on the Web. Its also easy to teach just set machines up and turn the kids loose!

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