A GUI won’t make programming easier in the long run, but it will probably make it look less intimidating to newbies. Ideally, Google would offer a “text mode” w

A GUI won’t make programming easier in the long run, but it will probably make it look less intimidating to newbies. Ideally, Google would offer a “text mode” with an API equivalent to the block mode so that users could upgrade after they have been “suckered in” by the easygoing look of blocks and learned a bit more about abstractions and algorithms.