Experimenting with possible designs of a programming language for kids. A strange experience after years of working on Bel. But it is useful to know precisely what Lisp features you're discarding — to know where the rungs of the ladder are.
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“By far the most common mistake startups make is to solve problems no one has.” -Paul Graham 2012
Because the perfect language for kids already exists? Even people who'd agree with that statement would disagree in the next sentence, when they said which language they meant.
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What about Pyret? Seems it's focus on education could make it a good fit.
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In my limited experience, I’ve found helping adults debug it to be a painful experience; I can’t imagine what that would be like with kids.
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What about just parsing English?
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There's not an unmet need. 40% of US kids happily learn CS on http://Code.org (more users than
@GitHub, w/ higher NPS than iPhone). For creativity, besides@Codeorg there's also@Scratch, w/ similar usage. Both are built on Blockly, a language by Google. -
A "coding language for kids" is a solved problem. The bigger challenges are things like adoption of CS in K-12 curriculum, diverse role models, etc. Regardless of practical value, I love new programming languages as an art form, and love to see what you come up with!
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