Hi everyone

I am a new high school teacher, teaching information technology in a business school in Denmark.

I was looking for a good way to introduce my students to programming and found Scratch - and I couldn't be happier. Seems that Scratch goes a long way, when it comes to demonstrating what programming is AND to let them program and be creative. I am still on the fence if Scratch is enough or if I have to introduce them to some kind of text-based programming language.

So just wanted to say hi and to hear if anyone else is in the same situation.

Cheers!

Rune (removed by moderator - please don't share personal information)

Hi I am medium coder
I have learnt so much from scratch
Thankyou
SCRATCH TEAM

Hi Rune,

Welcome to Scratch! I hope you have a very fulfilling experience here. You might want to check out the ScratchEd site, for Educators using Scratch - it's over here

http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/

Don't introduce them text-based language yet, if they never done any programming before. Scratch must be the first step to introduce programming to kids or anybody. Once they learn how programming works then introduce them with Phython programming language. Good Luck…

Thanks

Hi there I used to teach Computer science in a few secondary schools in the UK - if this is their first time tackling a coding language Scratch is definitely the way to go. Programming things quickly and effortlessly is essentially what scratch is. It's capable of many things and can showcase what can be done with a good understanding of the subject.

Most schools in the UK tend to teach Python soon after introducing Scratch - because it's a “real” programming language - that being said, anything you'll be doing in python at early stages can be done in Scratch, and usually easier.

Good luck! Teaching programming, though daunting, is very rewarding.