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

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