An interesting proposal. I think that anything that helps kids learn to program is great.

There was a programming compiler/interpreter called Turing, named after Alan Turing, by some students at University of Toronto in Canada. It was used by many of the high schools in Toronto, including mine, to teach young people how to program. It took the medium to low level coding of the day and brought it up to a high level of code writing. It also took away much of the low level stuff you needed to do to add sound and graphics.

I think that's important! Having an all in one solution so that new programmers don't have to learn "rocket science" before they learn how to simply "put a nail into a wooden board" at the beginning of everything they have to learn. It sort of kills the path to learning this great art form called programming.