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Who is this aimed at? Kids? If so it is unbelievably far off the mark.
by arresin 1y ago
Who is this aimed at? Kids? If so it is unbelievably far off the mark.
- lukaslalinsky 1y agoIt has a similar vibe to the BASIC I was starting with at around 10-11 years old. When I first saw this, I was thinking it could be a good first language for someone who is actually eager to learn more, but doesn't need to be exposed to the realities of the IT world.
- gus_massa 1y agoI made a somewhat similar project for My daughter when she was 8 or 9 y.o. It was a turtle that has to turn instead of using absolute coordinates like in this article.
- James_K 1y agoThere are people who don't know how to program, not necessarily because they are young, but because it hasn't been relevant in their lives yet.
- SoftTalker 1y agoThis is most people, and it will never be relevant in their lives ever.
- delusional 1y agoHow come? When I was learning HTML 20 years ago it was all angelfire sites and w3schools. This seems like a reasonable analogue to that. It doesn't have to be for all people in an age group.
- hyperhello 1y agoIt’s probably just aimed at scratching an itch of the person who designed it. Often when I see “for kids” I see a simplification of what adults would think. Here I see…JavaScript without brackets and parentheses.
- arresin 1y agoIf it is designed for kids then it is off the mark.
- mike_ivanov 1y agoDepends on the kind of kids. I find the approach perfect for the 10-15 years old age group.
- istjohn 1y agoWhy do you say that? It seems like a great halfway point between Scratch and Python.
- chrisbrandow 1y agoWhy?
- mike_ivanov 1y agoThere are 3yo kids, 5yo, 15yo ... 50yo kids. All are different. Don't judge by your own inner kid age.