[sharp11]

That is utterly fascinating. From his pov, is it a problem, or only from yours?

[lfnoise]

I'd like him to make a more firm next step. He sometimes brings up some of the difficulties he has expressing things that would be simple in another language. I point this out. He understands that but still prefers to work in Scratch. One factor may be that he has a social network on Scratch.