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by Wowfunhappy 2336 days ago
We use Scratch at Girls Who Code. Kids in the class are 9–12 or so.

I'm not the one who decided to use Scratch, but from observing the kids, one huge reason to use it is that most of the students can't type. If they want a character to say something, they use one finger to type out the sentence letter by letter, very slowly.

If they had to type everything, I don't think the class would work.