The free app is already being used in kindergarten classrooms at the Eliot-Pearson Children's School in Medford. "I learned to concentrate and use the imagination a lot," 7-year-old Talia Levitt says.

As kids snap together colorful programming blocks to make their favorite characters move, jump, dance and sing, they will learn to solve problems, design projects and express themselves creatively.

Both free apps will allow young kids to easily learn programming and, in the process, they learn to design projects, solve problems, and be creative on the computer. 3.

Mitchel Resnick and team have developed a new tablet application called ScratchJr which has been specifically developed to help young children between the ages of 5 and 7 learn basic programming ...