Re:Luna visual programming language beta release
by markwhiting on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @08:45PM
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Scratch requires only a very basic understanding of terms, and has been widely extended, as in translated to many languages and perhaps completely visual versions have been made.
Here's a link to the base project → https://scratch.mit.edu
Re:Luna visual programming language beta release
by zyxzevn on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @08:53PM
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Sadly, I am still working on that..
My thoughts are on www.reddit.com/r/unseen_programming
Its structure is very similar to Luna. Instead of popup-lists, you can drag-drop functions into the program and connect them with lines.
But I don't know from what age it will work, they still must learn some symbols. +,- etc.
Alternatively, you could let them try fun computer-games that are close to programming. Like factoria.
Re:Luna visual programming language beta release
by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @07:27PM
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You would need to find a pre-literate VPL, like Kidsym, or maybe Hands. Those are research languages, but there seem to be a lot of pre-literate visual data-flow and block languages out there these days, none of them is especially popular but they work fine in their own way.
The idea is as follows: Devices like tablets and smartphones are naturally usable by 4-year old with minimal and even no instructions even if they can't read yet. Is there a visual programming language that can be implemented on such devices that is usable by just 4 year old?