Exactly. The author misses the point fiddling with a limited meaning of 'coding', while teaching kids to code obviously involves everything including motivation

Exactly. The author misses the point fiddling with a limited meaning of 'coding', while teaching kids to code obviously involves everything including motivation, play, solving the problem, breaking up a problem into manageable parts and coding. By the way, our kids follow Python 101 in Minecraft Educational Edition, and have some fun with it.