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Some similarities with Felleisen's work teaching programming to early high schoolers,

- http://www.programbydesign.org/

Those folks have tons of data on what works, what doesn't.

I get a bit of a NIH feeling from this effort, that I hope is unfounded.

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Having everything run in the browser is a _huge_ win, because it allows students to share what they've made with their friends. Post to facebook "Look what I made", which includes the source and makes it easy for others to modify it and share that themselves. Viral loop!

It is possible to use Scheme in the browser too:

    http://www.wescheme.org/

Yes, but it's not possible to run Dr. Scheme in the browser. So there would still have to be a fair amount (ie almost all) of reinvention.

NIH = Not Invented Here, in case somebody else is wondering also.

Ah, so not National Institutes of Health. Makes more sense now

It is pretty confusing -- maybe we should invent a new acronym for use on HN.

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