Recommendations for graphical language/platform for young students?

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@bfinio

edit - I realize you could do the graphical programming in Tinkercad, convert to text code, then copy/paste that code into the IDE and upload, but ideally would like to avoid that. You can't convert BACK to blocks in Tinkercad once you've fully converted to text, so it would be hard to edit your program.

yes that's what I had in mind. but indeed it's one way, if you modify the code then all bets are off (but if kids don't understand C++, why would they touch the code?)

how old are your "younger students" ?