Scratch is awesome! I used it in high school for some small, silly games. It was fun :) As for "next steps" from Scratch: I think micro:bit [0] can fill that g

Scratch is awesome! I used it in high school for some small, silly games. It was fun :) As for "next steps" from Scratch: I think micro:bit [0] can fill that gap. Several of my coworkers were part of an event that used it to teach a group of middle-schoolers about programming. It uses block-based programming (supporting even Scratch I think?) and lets you move to and from a text-based language (Python and JS IIRC). I'm not sure if micro:bit has the same social component that the Scratch site does, but it seems like it could at least kids "hey, this is what my code looks like in Python!" Then, they may go and download Python and start hacking away on that. 0: https://www.microbit.org/ https://www.microbit.org/