Algorithmenabled tool helping kids programme amp communicate

  • | Sunday | 18th November, 2018

Visakhapatnam: A team of experts have devised an algorithm-enabled tool, which can help kids programme. The tool brings people from varying backgrounds on to a common platform to create a global community, mainly children, she said. “As a tool it can be used to create games, animated stories and puzzles. But they can also be uploaded online on a platform that allows others using the tool to rework, remix and reuse them,” she told TOI on Saturday. Scratch was released in 2007 and it is now in the third phase of its development.

Visakhapatnam: A team of experts have devised an algorithm-enabled tool, which can help kids programme. According to Yasmine B Kafai, one of the developers of the tool Scratch, said, “It is not just for programming, it is also an interactive social community site.”Scratch was developed by programming experts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and it now has 30 million users and is available in 25 languages, Kafai said. “As a tool it can be used to create games, animated stories and puzzles. But they can also be uploaded online on a platform that allows others using the tool to rework, remix and reuse them,” she told TOI on Saturday. Scratch was released in 2007 and it is now in the third phase of its development. Kafai said a non-profit product and its development was funded by the National Science Foundation, USA and run by the Scratch Foundation.Elaborating on it, Kafai, who is now with the University of Pennsylvania and a professor of learning sciences, pointed out that the tool was first developed with an aim to help community technology centres for the under-privileged.“It is designed to create an inclusive environment and provide people with the much- needed interactive platform,” she said. The tool brings people from varying backgrounds on to a common platform to create a global community, mainly children, she said.

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