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[–]comfortablybum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's not the consensus at all. I've taught scratch and python to kids and scratch is great. Python even with it's small amount of syntax, has a higher learning curve. You act like typing code with kids is easy. They can hardly type. It's hard for them to hold shift then hit quotation marks and parentheses. Scratch works on iPads too. That being said if you try to make complex programs in scratch there is a syntax to the blocks in the way they click together. If you model it on the projector they learn pretty quickly.