Scratch was developed by the MIT Media Laboratory and builds upon the LOGO concepts and philosophy. The impetus behind the creation of both of these programming environments was to make programming accessible and appealing to those who had not previously imagined themselves as programmers. Since the launch of Scratch in 2007, Scratch has attracted a vibrant community of young programmers. In just six years, over 1.5 million projects have been uploaded to the Scratch website mostly by members between the ages of eight to sixteen – on average roughly fifteen hundred new Scratch projects are added to the website daily (Brennan et al, 2010).