I believe that it takes a special personality and interest to be a coder. I began coding in 1976 with no formal training, and It just seemed like something I was naturally good at. With todays eye-candy GUI's, most people only see the superficial surface of the computing world and I believe if a kid has the potential to be a coder, something like this could be a path to real coding which usually happens in an IDE or editor.
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1 u/faissaloo 24 Oct 2015 20:05
This isn't really going to teach you coding, it's useful for people who can't code though because it lets them make their own 'programs'
0 u/ratsmack [OP] 24 Oct 2015 20:20
I believe that it takes a special personality and interest to be a coder. I began coding in 1976 with no formal training, and It just seemed like something I was naturally good at. With todays eye-candy GUI's, most people only see the superficial surface of the computing world and I believe if a kid has the potential to be a coder, something like this could be a path to real coding which usually happens in an IDE or editor.
0 u/OhBlindOne 24 Oct 2015 20:18
Yeah I wouldn't call this "coding". However, this does teach kids the fundamentals of how things work in programming: Order of statements, logic, etc.
0 u/wallofsilence 27 Oct 2015 23:31
Sounds like about five minutes worth of "learning", so perhaps worth three bucks. Also, maybe it was fun to write.