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Comparing the JavaScript vs blockly sample on that page I feel that the javascript would be much more readable even for a total newbie.
As someone with a few years in the industry who's currently volunteering to help teach high school kids coding for the first time -- you have no idea how easily code confuses newbies. Take even the smallest snippet: while (Count To you or me, this is pretty obvious. I've had kids ask me questions I'd never have thought of because I know this stuff already: * What do the parentheses mean? * What is Count, is it a Java…
A simple for-loop can be complicated.
First, they need to understand that a for-loop instantiates a variable (i). Then they need to understand that the next step is a limit: i Nevermind that it makes more sense to go: i = 0, i = I + 1, i Of course if they don't get that, they may not be cut out for programming. But its far from intuitive.