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<div dir="auto" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.696px;" class="">I've had a super-quick look at Grok with a few teacher account and I'm not sure it represents value for money. It looks quite similar to Codecademy which is free. Plus the students need to
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My personal fav amongst their tutorials was the Python and the BBC:Microbit.
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<a href="http://vb.net/" class="">VB.net</a>? I have Apple Macs but have Windows running with bootcamp as well. What language are people doing? Ideally I’d like to teach Python (because it’s easy) but in a simple drag and drop UI environment like VB.
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