Like Scratch, but textual!

Very interesting project to teach programming to kids. The main difference with Scratch is that Hedy uses Python (yuck!) on a textual environment.

To be able to reach kids around the world, they’ve open sourced a python-like language that is multi-lingual.

There is of course the eternal debate to whether kids should learn to program or not, exacerbated by the advances in generative AI. But I still think it’s a valuable skill, the same as calculators didn’t deprecate mathematics.

I would even go as far as to claim that it probably should displace some of the maths, since it’s clear by now, that the Newtonian way of describing the world through formulas is perhaps not the best one. Perhaps Wolfram’s point of view, that nature is perhaps better described through programs, is one worth exploring.

I will definitely give it a try!