hedy

This looks to be an in-depth summary of "The Programmer's Brain" by Felienne Hermans. I recently interviewed Felienne for my podcast and something a lot of people may not know is that this book was born out of her struggles to teach python to 12 year olds. Out of that struggle also came Hedy. A Multi-lingual learning language that functions as training wheels for Python*. The whole journey she went on is wild story about rethinking assumptions about programming languages and education and learning. https://www.hedycode.com/ https://github.com/hedyorg/hedy/blob/main/grammars/keywords-...

that's the first I've ever heard of "European Union Public License" https://github.com/hedyorg/hedy/blob/main/LICENSE https://spdx.org/licenses/EUPL-1.2.html

I really like her gradual introduction of syntax in exchange for expressiveness. I've never thought of it that way. It seems like a very powerful teaching method to get anyone up to speed in programming. The way it smooths the learning curve does seem to be something that will especially help those with self confidence issues. I'll try to incorporate the lessons learned here in my future programming language efforts. One thing that she mentioned towards the end, the idea of programming with the keywords for python in native languages... I think it's a hard, but awesome idea! I got grumpy with the switch to Unicode... and I might grumble a bit with other words in the source, but why not support native keywords? [Main Site] https://www.hedy.org/ [GitHub] https://github.com/Felienne/hedy/

Ok, I think the best part of these sorts of post is to plug other projects, right? :) So let me plug Hedy by Felienne Hermans, a python like environment, that gradually introduces more programming concepts :) https://hedy-beta.herokuapp.com/ https://github.com/Felienne/hedy