ScratchJr vs Scottie Go

With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) learn important new skills as they program their own interactive stories and games. By snapping together graphical programming blocks, children can make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. In the process, children learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer. They also use math and language in a meaningful and motivating context, supporting the development of early-childhood numeracy and literacy. With ScratchJr, children don’t just learn to code, they code to learn. ScratchJr was inspired by the popular Scratch programming language (http://scratch.mit.edu), used by millions of people (ages 8 and up) around the world. The ScratchJr interface and programming language were redesigned to make them appropriate for younger children’s cognitive, personal, social, and emotional development. ScratchJr is a collaboration between the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the MIT Media Lab, the Developmental Technologies research group at Tufts University, and the Playful Invention Company. The ScratchJr project has received generous financial support from the National Science Foundation (NSF DRL-1118664), Scratch Foundation, LEGO Foundation, and British Telecommunications. If you enjoy using this free app, please consider making a donation to the Scratch Foundation (www.scratchfoundation.org), a nonprofit organization that provides ongoing support for ScratchJr. We appreciate donations of all sizes, large and small.

Caution: The game requires special tiles, which can be bought from Scottie Go! official distributors. Who would believe that the fate of a friendly alien Scottie will depend on you and your programming skills. It's year 2030. Scottie's spaceship breaks down and has to land on our planet. Help Scottie obtain replacement parts for his vehicle by programming his movements. Become an expert in algorithm design and discover basics of programming. Scottie Go! is an educational game with an interactive course in programming. It is a unique combination of educational application, with almost 100 tasks of increasing difficulty, and cardboard tiles used to write programs, recognized by the application. While playing, you will learn terms such as: loop, condition, variable, function and many others. Scottie Go! is a game which will let you: • improve your analytical and logical thinking skills, • learn to solve complex problems and work in groups, • develop your algorithmic intuition. More information can be found at www.scottiego.com.