Scratch Programming Playground

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

It’s misleading to have just my name on the cover. This book wouldn’t exist without the efforts of many people. I’d like to thank my publisher, Bill Pollock; my editors, Laurel Chun and Tyler Ortman; my technical reviewer, Martin Tan; my copyeditor, Anne Marie Walker; and all of the staff at No Starch Press.

Thanks to the MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten group for their development of Scratch, which has a long chain of influential thinkers: Mitchel Resnick, Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky, and Jean Piaget. While we give the younger generation a ride on our shoulders, let’s never forget where we ourselves stand.

Special thanks to the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in Oakland, California. A video game museum is as fun ...