5 engineers on Hacker News describe using Scratch first-hand: 3 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“We switched to Scratch and he has been happily occupied with it for the past year.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · lmilcin · 2021-07-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We first tried to use Scratch and some of the online learning sites, but they all drove me crazy because things would break”
regret · personal · chondl · 2021-01-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The language itself is surprisingly pleasant to program (even for a professional programmer). The real problem is the lack of data structures (like a dict)”
mixed · personal · szopa · 2020-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Very soon we discovered Scratch[0] and Phun[1], and we were back at it again creating even better games”
endorse · personal · _caw · 2017-08-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use scratch and its clones phratch/snap/bingo at our local coderdojo to great effect.”
endorse · personal · dmoo · 2014-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?