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Daisy the Dinosaur. Stencyl: Make iPhone, iPad, Android & Flash Games without code. Move The Turtle. Programming For Kids. Programming With Blocks. Syntax is a royal pain in the neck for beginning programmers. For a lot of kids learning computing or programming syntax is the single largest hurtle.
It’s hard to teach both a new (programming) language and a new way of thinking and problem solving at the same time. This tends to be a big stumbling block for teaching a lot of basic computing concepts. For years there have been tools developed that remove syntax from the equation. Alice and Scratch are probably the most well-known and popular of these tools.
What I find is that tastes are different. All of these tools have some great features and either university or private research behind the development. GP is a free, general-purpose blocks programming language (similar to MIT's Scratch) that is powerful yet easy to learn. Alice Alice is a 3-d environment from Carnegie Mellon. Kodu is a coding environment originally developed by Microsoft Research for the Xbox 360 but now also available for Windows PCs. Snap! Hopscotch - Coding for kids. Alice.org. ScratchJr - Home. HTML Glossary.