These days, you are more likely to sneak kids into programming via Scratch — a system for setting up programs via blocks in a GUI. Again, you can get simple results simply. With Scratch or Basic ...

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The sensor is the input and the motor is the output. The children use Scratch, a visual programming language, to create the program that will make the mouth snap shut when something is put inside it.