Today, during Computer Science Education Week, the Search Engine Google is showing this animated
Doodle for celebrating 50 years of Kids Coding
Today’s Google Doodle was developed through the close teamwork of THREE teams: the Google
Doodle team, Google Blockly team, and researchers from MIT Scratch!
In the 1960’s, long before personal computers, Seymour Papert and researchers at MIT developed
Logo - the first coding language designed for kids.
With Logo, children could program the movements of a turtle, giving them the opportunity to
explore ideas in math and science.
Papert and his colleagues envisioned that computers could eventually be used by all
children as a powerful tool for learning.
They saw coding as a way for kids to develop confidence and fluency with a piece of powerful,
modern, and one-day ubiquitous technology.
With today’s Google Doodle -- the first coding Doodle ever -- Google celebrate fifty
years of coding languages for kids by “Coding for Carrots.”
In the interactive Doodle, you program and help a furry friend across 6 levels in a quest
to gather its favorite food by snapping together coding blocks based on the Scratch programming
language for kids.
Like Logo, Scratch was developed at MIT and builds on Papert’s early ideas about kids
and computers.
It’s designed to be less intimidating than typical programming languages, but just as
powerful and expressive.