I feel like it would be more beneficial for students to move directly from Scratch to a normal programming environment (ie. editor + terminal on a unix OS). The learning curve & difficulty would absolutely be a challenge at first, but learning is best done through struggling, and trial & error. Plus, for young students, becoming familiar & comfortable with the terminal & editor in their most neuroplastic years would set them up to be very strong engineers.
wanderingmind|3 years ago