making children learn "pre-computing" through iPad apps at an age where they're not ready to learn real computing I just think there's a bit of a gap right now

making children learn "pre-computing" through iPad apps at an age where they're not ready to learn real computing I just think there's a bit of a gap right now. I think apps like Tynker that provide sort of pre-computing problem-solving are pretty good. I also like environments like Replit that are easy to jump right into and get a Python environment without a bunch of random setup. And all of this is way better than I had when I was a kid! But I think there could be something in the middle, maybe something that started to engage with topics like list manipulation a bit more than the current batch of pre-computing apps do.