I fully agree with the sentiments here. For all intents and purposes, I think that block style languages might not be the best way to introduce programming - I'

I fully agree with the sentiments here. For all intents and purposes, I think that block style languages might not be the best way to introduce programming - I'll have to say that Bret Victor's Learnable Programming makes much more sense (http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/ http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/) However, there is no (to my knowledge) better way to introduce programming in an easy 'non-keyboard' way than blocks. I ask this because I'm currently brainstorming ideas for tux4kids (an open source educational suite for kids - yes tux as in the linux mascot), and we've come to the conclusion of using block structures (since the game has to be playable for mobile too). Unfortunately, we've come no better than 'move here, use functions' a la Lightbot (lightbot.com) It's quite timely that this has been posted here, since we're still brainstorming concepts and I wanted to take this opportunity to ask - what would you suggest for a 'programming game' for kids?