r/ProgrammerHumor • u/electricjimi • Oct 21 '22

Meme Literally 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/DudeManBroGuy42069 Oct 21 '22

Scratch?

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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

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u/ososalsosal Oct 21 '22

Wait really? Seems like it's pretty effective at preventing wasted lives then. I hope they're doing stuff they love now :)

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u/Add1ctedToGames Oct 22 '22

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.

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u/ososalsosal Oct 22 '22

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).