My first IT class at Ashford University is INT 100: Fundamentals of Information Technology & Literacy. One of my first assignments was to get familiar with a programming language called Scratch. Scratch is a block type programming language that is object-based and was created by the beautiful minds over at MIT. I initially thought that my experience with Scratch was my first time with a block type programming language, but after some thought, I realized that I have tried teaching my toddler niece how to use a something like Scratch . The language that I tried teaching her was in the form of one of her toys that has multiple cars that attach to each other. Each car had a different function such as move forward, turn right, turn left, play a sound, etc. The first task that was presented to the class was to use Scratch to assemble a short program of our own that included adding motion, looks, sound, control options, and any oth...