My 10 year old loves programming and has a fair number of hours in Scratch and Roblox. I've noticed when messing around with Scratch, he quickly progressed fro

My 10 year old loves programming and has a fair number of hours in Scratch and Roblox. I've noticed when messing around with Scratch, he quickly progressed from leaning the language to using the language to solve his own problems. He moved from following tutorials to creating his own games and ideas quickly. When playing with the the Roblox editor he would follow the Youtube tutorials, but never made the leap to making his own games. Roblox scripting is fairly wordy, you spend a far amount of time binding methods to long event handlers. There is a lot of text you have to type, and spell correctly, and remember. 10 year olds are very slow typists. I also spend a fair amount of time helping him fix small syntax errors which slowly sapped his enthusiasm. The drag and drop, and drop downs in Scratch really helped him move quickly from learning the language, to using the language to make games.