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The beauty of Scratch and other similar tools is that instead of the teacher asking questions, the child learns to ask their own questions.

If you are interested in learning more about this mindset, you should read Mindstorms by Seymour Papert (RIP).

https://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerfu...

Scratch can be a "gateway drug" to languages that professional programmers use. The extensions/abstractions of Scratch from Berkeley that deal with making it do complicated things seem like putting a fish on a bicycle. Sometimes, you just have to leap and try to not fall.

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Mindstorms first edition is now freely available: http://mindstorms.media.mit.edu/

[wallflower → homarp]

Thank you!