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Suggestion: An IDE for children which only allows valid sentences to be inserted. E.g. they could click "create variable" or "create function call" button which
by nawitus 13y ago
Suggestion: An IDE for children which only allows valid sentences to be inserted. E.g. they could click "create variable" or "create function call" button which would be a form/wizard/dialog to create it. This could be combined with "switch to advanced mode" button which would allow normal typing.
- bitwize 13y agoI actually wrote one of these when I was about 11. It was a menu-driven program written in BASIC that constructed (more or less) syntactically correct BASIC programs. It had a user interface similar to Multiplan, or the Microsoft Word of the day. I eventually abandoned it because even as a kid, for me it was faster to type stuff in than to mess around with a program like this; and typing gave me access to the whole language rather than just what I had implemented in the menus so far.