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This is interesting and serves as a potential "hook" for getting people interested in coding. I understand the BASIC appeal!

In something like python, an analogous thing is turtle graphics. Is there something more similar (but still very basic) in python for something like this? A mini graphical language?

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Hmm, something like graphics.py maybe? https://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/ppics2/code/graphics....

Yeah, something like that. It's hard to be both expressive and useful.

This is a small set of primitives around a tkinter canvas. I suppose one could expose a small set of primitives around a pygame too.

I have to think hard about what exactly I would want.

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