Your experience with scratch reflects my own with all the block-based UIs. Some stuff is really easy but when we wanted to do things like functions, arrays and

Your experience with scratch reflects my own with all the block-based UIs. Some stuff is really easy but when we wanted to do things like functions, arrays and populating variables I couldn't figure it out without searching on the webs. It made sense after I found the correct way to do it, but the visual metaphor gets convoluted beyond pretty simple use cases. When programming the microbit and I like that you can switch between javascript and blocks to see the cause and effect of making changes though.