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Re:Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to code by csmeyer on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @03:50PM (#38369899)
The keywords are there on every line to make them easy to verbally read. This is most important in the case of set x = 7, the keyword makes it clear that we're trying to mutate a variable, not assert equality.

Even though technically we could make forward() a method at the top level in the context of a paint program, we chose to make things more OOPy to prepare them for later when students get to the 2D game engine and there can be multiple sprites to control.

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Re:Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to code by wruza on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @05:52PM (#38371679)
I always wanted `set` in regular languages instead of (or in addition to) =/==.

Edit: well actually, I want a whole development studio like this for professional development. You are the closest of anything else to my vague idea of what programming should look like. I feel bad for the kids who later will have to move from this to what we call "our software development stacks".

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Re:Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to code by mikeravkine on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @06:41PM (#38372261)
Pascals := is concise and intuitively obvious, so obviously it never caught on.
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Re:Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to code by avarun on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @09:42PM (#38374023)
Hard to type though
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Re:Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to code by Yasuraka on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @02:43AM (#38376184)
Good news https://go.dev/tour/basics/10
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Re:Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to code by kaba0 on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @03:41AM (#38376663)
So now Go has a single good feature!
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Re:Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to code by fsckboy on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @11:02PM (#38469452)
>Pascals := is ...

:= is Algol's. Algol had a much bigger European influence than American, and other euro languages like Pascal followed its traditions

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Re:Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to code by runlaszlorun on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @01:13AM (#38375348)
> I always wanted `set` in regular languages instead of (or in addition to) =/==.

TCL ftw!

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