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Re:The Chaotic World of Kids Trying to Play Video Games on S... by abrookewood on Friday April 28, 2023 @01:58AM (#35737942)
Scratch is great - such an excellent introduction to coding.
Re:The Chaotic World of Kids Trying to Play Video Games on S... by creatonez on Friday April 28, 2023 @03:09AM (#35738397)
Try Snap as well. It's like Scratch and has the same learning curve, but has more features (functions, 2D arrays, hashmaps, local variables, recursion, string manipulation, etc.) that make it more suitable than Scratch for more advanced computer science concepts if the student wants to speed ahead. It could be used all the way from elementary school through high school without running into serious limitations, if an instructor wanted to.

https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/help/SnapManual.pdf