The point I want to stress is that text is keeping kids from coding. Like I said, even with punctuation-less text, the game was deemed difficult. Simpler and fo

The point I want to stress is that text is keeping kids from coding. Like I said, even with punctuation-less text, the game was deemed difficult. Simpler and forgiving syntax simply would not help. The IDE in the game is actually extremely forgiving and could just as well walk players through the syntax, but interest levels then drop off. This is the difference between in theory and in practice. Yes there are kids that had no problem with text or without text. Of course kids can and have learned to code with textual languages. Same with math. The main idea here is that you can get an even larger population of kids doing math and coding, and engaging, by adopting pictographs first. As demonstrated in DragonBox. As seen in our own testing.