{"id":3771,"date":"2016-05-18T13:41:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T05:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/18\/google-teams-up-with-mit-to-make-programming-easier-for-kids\/"},"modified":"2016-05-18T13:41:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T05:41:04","slug":"google-teams-up-with-mit-to-make-programming-easier-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/18\/google-teams-up-with-mit-to-make-programming-easier-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Google teams up with MIT to make programming easier for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f90910%2fscratch3.0-prototype_50___1_\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/yc3TKaAGatZ2sCI--aiazQEtwEo=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F90910%2Fscratch3.0-prototype_50___1_.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Google+teams+up+with+MIT+to+make+programming+easier+for+kids&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F17%2Fgoogle-scratch-blocks%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F17%2Fgoogle-scratch-blocks%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. \u2014 Google&#8217;s annual developer conference doesn&#8217;t officially kick off until Wednesday but about 120 of the company&#8217;s youngest developers are already getting to preview one of its newest announcements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Google is teaming up with MIT&#8217;s Media Lab to create <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.googleblog.com\/2016\/05\/scratch-and-google-introduce-scratch-blocks.html\">Scratch Blocks<\/a>, an updated version of the kid-centric programming language. 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