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Re:Visual Programming and Why It Sucks by Turing_Machine on Sunday September 09, 2012 @10:58AM (#4495932)
http://scratch.mit.edu/channel/featured

1) Pick one of these at random. 2) Assign a person who knows nothing about programming to write it in C. 3) See how long it takes.

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Re:Visual Programming and Why It Sucks by Turing_Machine on Sunday September 09, 2012 @11:06AM (#4495955)
Also 4) the person you're assigning to the job is a third grader.
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Re:Visual Programming and Why It Sucks by thebigshane on Sunday September 09, 2012 @12:53PM (#4496228)
Why does it need to be C?

Why not python or javascript?

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Re:Visual Programming and Why It Sucks by Turing_Machine on Sunday September 09, 2012 @02:59PM (#4496589)
Feel free to run the experiment. No matter what text-based language you use, it's going to take a helluva lot longer than Scratch. That is the actual point here.
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