Written by Felienne Hermans
Learning to program is hard, because you need to think of a lot of things at once. You have to make a plan of what you are going to program, but you also need to know the right syntax; the right programming codes to use. Remembering all these codes can be really difficult, and if you want to create a program in a programming language like Python, you need to know a lot of codes before you can get started. For example simply printing something already involves typing print and using round brackets and quotations marks:
print('Hallo world’)
This might be a bit too much for younger children learning to program, but also for other novices. Research shows that people can only hold 2 to 6 things in their working memory at one time, and print + 2 brackets + 2 quotation marks might be too much to remember.
We therefore created a language in which you can start really simple, which add more and more syntax elements as you advance. The language is called Hedy and is available now at
http://hedy-beta.herokuapp.com/.
Watch the Hedy Introduction Talk here: