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[gwillen]

I know I never post, but this is far too beautiful not to link to, and you should read it.

http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/

(I like it totally independent of the random dig at the practicality of type theory, near the end. But I did laugh.)

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[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

I like Scratch a lot!

... but I don't think it's great for this sort of task, playing with algorithms at different levels of abstraction -- making a program with Scratch is a pretty concrete exercise?

(kids, once they get into it, can make some pretty crazy stuff...)