I think it's great- most of the hate probably comes from people who came into their first programming class already knowing how to code to some degree and had t

I think it's great- most of the hate probably comes from people who came into their first programming class already knowing how to code to some degree and had to "downgrade" from a traditional language to Scratch to learn along with the class. I've been there, but there's still some cool stuff you can do when you bring in your outside programming knowledge.