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... As opposed to all those non-text-based programming languages?


It's important to distinguish from visual/block-based programming environments directed at families and children, such as Lego Mindstorms, https://scratch.mit.edu/ , https://developers.google.com/blockly/ , etc.


I disagree. When talking about things you don't need to go out of your way to indicate you are the same as 99% of the group you are in. It is assumed. You need to go out of your way to indicate when you are NOT like 99% of the group.

and the fact that it's for the switch doesn't make one automatically assume it's part of the visual programming group because most of the switch games were probably programmed with text based languages.


When it's for a touch-based system that doesn't typically have a keyboard, my mind goes to graphical drag-and-drop programming first.


This is a non-text based programming language. https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-50-years-of-kids-...


as opposed to all those _difficult-to-learn_ text-based programming languages




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