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Just love the minimalism and simplicity of BASIC. I tried to program in Scratch and Scratch Junior with my 7 years old and it's just overwhelming for me as an adult software developer not to mention a child. Click here, move here, this container and that, not to mentions the browser/mouse issues. I don't understand why it's so popular, maybe it's because that's the only application they teach kids in schools? I'm thinking about just booting up my old 486 PC and show MS Basic.


Great point. People still confuse primary colors and click-and-drag with easy learning.

But here's how everyone understood a computer would work, before they saw anything else:

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