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Or something like LiveCode/HyperCard? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode) Because there's currently a Kickstarter campaign ( http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1755283828/open-source-edition-of-livecode) to create an open-source edition of LiveCode for use in education, and if one reads their arguments for why LiveCode is the best way to teach computer programming in high schools ( http://www.runrev.com/education/k12.html), it seems to address a lot of these problems. Also, this: http://www.volokh.com/2013/02/18/hypercard-redux/ Disclaimer: I know nothing about LiveCode, HyperCard, or the people behind it that I didn't read at one of those links in the past few days. Julia On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Abigail Goben <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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/<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 >