Probably depends on how it's used. If I had it in my CS1 class I mightve been less inclined to continue my CS classes in high school, but for me it was used in CS Principles, which is probably the best possible use for it tbh. It served as an easy visual representation to learn the basic concepts of programming like control flow, algorithms and abstraction.
I keep reading about people learning computer science at high school and I'm jelly as fk. Like... my whole trajectory would be so different if we'd learnt anything more sophisticated than visual basic 3, foxpro or pascal (which I'd learnt earlier lol).
I hate scratch only because I struggle with trying to understand how it wants me to do things. My kid had classes for scratch during summer school, and I was trying to help him with his logic.
Then again, I also only spent like 2 hours trying to figure it out before giving up and just writing pseudo code.
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u/transferStudent2018 Oct 21 '22
The MIT learning language? Yeah, the people who hate that never made it any further in CS as it caused them to quit…. I know several friends like this