There are even attempts to teach textual programming to students who already learned Scratch, by translating blocks to javascript (Scratch-LN, Blockly). I reme

There are even attempts to teach textual programming to students who already learned Scratch, by translating blocks to javascript (Scratch-LN, Blockly). I remember someone building a whole environment for making Slack look professional, by providing a text syntax that could nevertheless be programmed like Slack by adding and connecting typed blocks in the text structure (though I can't recall its name).