On 2/22/2013 1:09 PM, Wilhelmina Randtke wrote: > It's a little worrying that there aren't introductory programming platforms > that let someone do something interesting at a simple level Wilhelmina, Would you consider something like ROSALIND to be what you are describing? It focuses a little more on BI but is with basic programming. You learn to doing BI through figuring out your code. http://rosalind.info/problems/locations/ Abigail -- Abigail Goben Assistant Information Services Librarian and Assistant Professor University of Illinois at Chicago Library of the Health Sciences - Chicago (M/C 763) 1750 W. Polk Street Chicago, Illinois 60612 312.996.8292