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Re:Show HN: PickCode – An educational coding environment for... by emptysongglass on Monday July 25, 2022 @04:53PM (#32230766)
Question: are there any plans to offer anything other than JavaScript? Grasshopper has been on the market for a number of years now and still only offers the one.
Re:Show HN: PickCode – An educational coding environment for... by lucasmullens on Monday July 25, 2022 @05:01PM (#32230859)
Not at the moment, but that's definitely our number one feature request. It takes a lot of work to add new languages, since all our curriculum would need to be rewritten.

Often a lot of new developers mistakenly believe the best thing for them to do is learn as many languages as possible, when learning the fundamentals of a single language is usually more useful.

Re:Show HN: PickCode – An educational coding environment for... by macintux on Monday July 25, 2022 @10:41PM (#32233641)
Define “useful”.

To get a job? Probably. To really understand programming? I think learning a wide selection of different paradigms is more helpful.