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What's your opinion on Scratch or similar kid-friendly languages?
by higherpurpose 13y ago
What's your opinion on Scratch or similar kid-friendly languages?
- dragonbonheur 13y agoNo full screen - full resolution applications. As if MIT never thought beyond 320x200.
- higherpurpose 13y agoOk, but I didn't mean Scratch per se, rather the style of Scratch, and if it's useful for learning. MIT has taken over Google's App Inventor for example, and there are others like that. http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/
- orbifold 13y agoThey take kid friendly too far. I was maybe 6-7 when I first encountered QBasic. The key thing was that the documentation could be accessed from the editor. It was comprehensive enough, with plenty of examples, that I could write simple silly graphical and midi audio programs with ease, in addition to text based adventures. I think the closest spiritual successor would be Python. I still remember it as one of the most user friendly environments by far.