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grishkatoday at 1:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

Hm. That must be new, I was taught Turbo Pascal


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flexagoontoday at 1:23 PM

Somewhat new, or at least wasn't used in schools until fairly recently. It's a programming environment with tools like Turtle Graphics built in, specifically for teaching the basics of coding. There are even some tasks in ЕГЭ for it.

https://www.niisi.ru/kumir/

The website screenshot shows it on Windows XP though, don't know if it actually existed back then or if it's just typical Russian institutions still using Windows XP.

throw-the-toweltoday at 1:40 PM

In fact, the language itself dates to rhe 1980s I think. No idea whether its use in schools is recent though.