I should point out that Harvard teaches programming in Scratch for the first 2 weeks of their introductory CS course. http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/

I should point out that Harvard teaches programming in Scratch for the first 2 weeks of their introductory CS course. http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/harvard-cs50-introduction-programming-and-scratch http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/harvard-cs50-introd... According to slide 27, most students prefer it that way: http://cs.harvard.edu/malan/publications/Scratch@MIT.pdf http://cs.harvard.edu/malan/publications/Scratch@MIT.pdf