[cdsmith]

Hey! I built CodeWorld. Thanks for the kind words!

Yeah, the examples are a mess right now. Let me point you to a couple things: first, there's a partially complete tutorial (click the Help button) with some simple examples. Second, (and this is very early on, so please be forgiving!) there's a draft of a textbook at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NbMtySIDNK40Bk4ImrUAE95S... So yeah, we're working very hard on fixing the documentation issues. Patience!

I don't have such a good answer about syntax. The syntax is about as good as I can make it. There is autocomplete (Ctrl-Space) for built-in function names, and brace highlighting, and I'd love to work on more features to make the programming more interactive with immediate feedback. I also wrote a simplified version of Haskell's standard library and wrote a simple post-processor to reword the more confusing error messages, in an attempt to make it easier to find and fix problems that do occur. If you have ideas or find particularly bad examples, please add a quick example at https://github.com/google/codeworld/issues/new

If this doesn't work, and you look for alternatives to teach programming to your daughter, you might consider Scratch or (if you're still into doing it with functional programming) bootstrapworld.org.

Thanks for looking!