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Free tool offers 'easy' coding
- Readmore 19y agoThat is a lot like the programming gui for the Lego Mindstorms system. It seems like a good way to get kids interested in programming if only to bridge them to working with actual code.
- jamesbritt 19y agoDoes it run the risk of hiding too much of what actual coding entails? Put another way: Many developers look down on Visual Basic because it made certain things easy and other (arguably more important) things near impossible, creating (so the argument goes) a group of coders who didn't, and never would, understand programming in any meaningful sense. I don't think I've ever heard anyone praise VB as a good way to get people interested in "real" coding. Does ease of use, and quick results in a limited domain, really act as a gateway to sophisticated programming? I suspect the trick is to make it hackable in an interesting way, so that those with some motivation have a natural path to go learn how computational systems work when the default interface become too limiting. (VB was always usable enough that few people felt the need to go learn C or C++ whatever to accomplish things, so it was easy for people to be satisfied.)
- rami 19y agoVB was my first programming language (I was 15 at the time) it is a good way to produce results fast and learn about conditional statements, loops and functions. Later, I switched to C and C++.