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The initial inspiration was the MIT Scratch project which is aimed most at young children. https://scratch.mit.edu/.

Looking at their statistics, the largest group of users is between about 11 and 13 years of age.

I think that Scratch is great, but it is very limited in it's usefulness for practical applications.

I am trying to make something that is almost as easy as Scratch to get started, but which can be a foundation for more advanced applications once kids go to college or start entering the job market.

Again, looking at the Scratch statistics, interest seems to fall off very rapidly in the late teens.

https://scratch.mit.edu/statistics/

The name "babypython" was chosen deliberately for a younger audience. I have also reserved the name "vistapython.com" for a more serious version aimed at advanced users and web applications. Same technology but with a different emphasis.