marcov wrote:I think you can never compared walled garden where every path is preprepared with a general purpose tool like FB. I also think the whole thread heaps the unschooled but continuous users and the various levels of total beginners too much together.BasicCoder2 wrote: Another example is Scratch,
https://scratch.mit.edu/
First pick an audience, then make an argument. Don't try to add various audiences in the hope that something sticks.
The audience BASIC was intended for:
https://www.britannica.com/technology/BASIC
BASIC, in fullBeginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, Computer programming language developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz (b. 1928) at Dartmouth College in the mid 1960s. One of the simplest high-level languages, with commands similar to English, it can be learned with relative ease even by schoolchildren and novice programmers.