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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by rahimnathwani on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:57PM (#35377382)
Do kids who start programming with Hedy get confused about when a piece of text is interpreted as a variable vs. a string?

https://www.hedycode.com/hedy/2#default

The way it automatically detects variable within strings seems to magical. OTOH AIUI Hedy has been developed alongside research on what works for kids.

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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by alephaleph on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:07PM (#35377511)
IIRC one of Hedy’s unique features is that it gradually increases in complexity as you “level up” including introducing what we’d call “breaking changes”. At level 4, they start allowing and requiring you to quote string literals: https://www.hedycode.com/hedy/4#default
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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by rahimnathwani on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:11PM (#35377555)
Nice!

I'm excited for my son to try it out once he's gotten comfortable with scratch.

At the moment, he's more interested in the visual design part of scratch than the programming, so I probably need to find some cool existing animations to inspire him.

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