This is Programming?

So as I was messing around on “Scratch” there was only one thing that I could think, WHAT IS THIS CRAP?! Excuse my foul language but this “programming software” just annoyed me to no end. The idea that people spend hours of there day putting virtual legos together just to make an ugly cat dance and change colors makes me so angry. This is NOT PROGRAMMING! This is virtual Lincoln Logs. Programming involves calculations and brain function and even so education in the field, but my five year old brother could use this program.  I just dont understand how people from MIT could pass this off as a technological advancement. I am not a programmer in the slightest, im a teacher. But I feel like this is a dumbing down of the art and practice of programming. So I do not have much else to say about this except that I couldnt “explore” this for more than 20 minutes until I got annoyed by the dancing cat.

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