Scratch is one of the visual tools he spoke about. I'm not sure how he can bash such a tool. When you're such a beginner that you don't know what a semi-colon

Scratch is one of the visual tools he spoke about. I'm not sure how he can bash such a tool. When you're such a beginner that you don't know what a semi-colon is then scratch is the EXACT tool you want to teach with. It allows people to get to the logic and interesting problem solving mechanics of programming instead of worrying about including header files or curly braces. All you do is drag/connect constructs together and you can instantly see the results.