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Visual Programming – Why it's a bad idea (mikehadlow.blogspot.com)
3 points by mikehadlow on Oct 1, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Meh. Sweeping generalizations almost never hold up.

The kids in my robotics class aren't ready to deal with another layer of knowledge development to get a robot to bounce off walls while sweeping the floor: visual programming is perfectly suited to that (and a few other problems).




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