Patrice Gans, a technology teacher and library-media specialist in Connecticut, reviews Super Scratch Programming Adventure (No Starch Press, 2012).

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Scratch is written in Squeak (more about that in a moment) and is an open source project. Downloads are available for Windows (Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7) and Mac OS X (10.4 or later).

A new book from No Starch Press, Super Scratch Programming Adventure!: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games makes it even easier to teach your kids basic programming skills.