Scratch: Programming for all

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 60-67

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

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 70350769233     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1592761.1592779     Document Type: Article

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