On Feb 28, 5:25 am, mhampton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Scratch is great.  Its been very successful for me in introducing my
> daughter to programming.
>
> I don't see much possible interaction with Sage, since Scratch is
> written in Squeak, and it has a custom (although quite permissive)
> license.  It might provide some inspiration for making some sort of
> visual programming interface in the notebook though, perhaps as some
> sort of extension of @interacts.  Besides the educational aspect, such
> an interface could be very useful to a variety of people such as
> modelers (I know a lot of biologists and some engineers who heavily
> use such things) or perhaps even in a business environment.

I know people who use it in teaching probability as well - it has some
distributions encoded, I guess, and then you write a game.  But no,
it's probably not a good thing to include in Sage as is.

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