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Re:Microsoft MakeCode by anonytrary on Thursday January 18, 2018 @06:21AM (#16176272)
To be very pedantic, the context makes it clear I'm using "code" as shorthand to refer only to written programs.

True, visual code may well be a first class citizen in programming. As of today, there are still programs people would not write visually. It's a tool for simple procedural work, which could change as the ergonomics get even better.

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Re:Microsoft MakeCode by seanmcdirmid on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:51PM (#16179397)
There are codeless visual programming methods, like Pygmalion and Sketchpad, among others. So we shouldn't get confused with them.
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Re:Microsoft MakeCode by anonytrary on Friday January 19, 2018 @12:02AM (#16184242)
Visual programming: Drag and drop nodes and edges to form a control-flow/compute graph.

Code: Python, JS, C++, etc.

I don't think this is confusing for our readers at all.

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