Yes, this would be a healthy approach. Also I'm not a big fan of the just learning to code approach. software development is more than just hammering on the ke

Yes, this would be a healthy approach. Also I'm not a big fan of the just learning to code approach. software development is more than just hammering on the keyboard. It is about thinking about the right data structures, or data generally, it is about architecture. Finally, if you have internet you have access to so much material to learn coding, why should you start with Scratch if there are thousands of free courses, books, tutorials for every other language. Think about learning Swift on the iPad, C# in the browser, ...