I have to say that the lack of a good "visual" programming language was what really held me back from learning to code when I was young. I tried to learn progra

I have to say that the lack of a good "visual" programming language was what really held me back from learning to code when I was young. I tried to learn programming countless times and always got bored or frustrated because there seemed to be this huge gulf between what I'd be reading about (print "Hello, world!") and what I thought coding was (being able to create applications like those I actually used on a day to day process). In the end, it was (of all things) Actionscript/Flash that ultimately gave me the visual feedback I needed to make real progress in learning to code. These days, I'd probably recommend something like Processing(.org) to a newcomer. All this just to say: I'm sympathetic that someone wants a programming language that's more visual and that makes it easier to push pixels. I think it'd go a long way to help teaching programming at the very least.