Which is why with my primary target being pre-teens down to third or fourth grade, they have no place.
To me that's time for them to move on to a real programming language -- like pascal or C.
A lot of people seem to like to use the training wheels analogy; but usually you give them a tricycle or big wheels long before you give them a real bike even with training wheels. I don't see a lot of adults or even teenagers riding around on big wheels. You might have alphabet blocks as a toddler, doesn't mean you're still using them in Elementary school.
I'm thinking Duplo, not Lego Technix. I'm thinking Erector Set, not Arc Welder. I'm thinking alphabet blocks, not Merriam-Websters.
Oddly, across the various places I'm discussing this that seems to be the hardest point to drive home and/or that people aren't understanding. (this forum so far has been the most accepting of the concepts)- Hoping that will get better when I have a real website written up with the various points and information broken into pieces and dumbed down -- as opposed to forum rants the illiterates who make up modern society piss and moan about. Oh noes, wall of text -- AAAH!!! God forbid people be expected to read anything anymore.
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