Phrogram allows me to introduce object oriented programming to my students in a manner that seems fun to them, but without all of the distractions of working in a purely visual environment such as Visual Basic. I really appreciate not having all of the visual drag and drop junk for the students to play with. Phrogram allows me to focus on the algorithms and the syntax of programming.

John Velis
Teacher
Traverse City, MI

We downloaded the trial version of Phrogram and my son loves working with it and learning to program. His interest in programming is growing daily and he is very excited about being able to program the computer! Thanks for making such a great product available for children and beginner programmers. I learned to program in BASIC and FORTRAN 77 and Phrogram is so much more user friendly!

Jeremy McKinnis
Project Manager
Fayetteville, NY

Phrogram is based on top of the 2.0 .NET Framework. The point is to take away all of the confusing parts of programming (like a complicated IDE) and make programming fun! The Phrogram folks have succeeded at making their product a simple and pleasurable introduction to writing code. I sure wish Phrogram had been available when I was 10 :).
I cannot express the joy I felt in seeing my kid get into writing his first application.  He was so into it!

David Starr
Software Architect
Boise, ID

I have been in the computer industry from 10+ years programming business applications for the web. I love Phrogram. My first love in computers is computer graphics/animation and I have always been interested in game programming. I’ve have always wanted the dream job working at Disney doing animations or working on some cool game. Phrogram gives me the opportunity be creative as a hobby and removes the complexity. It reminds me of the days of LOGO, which was my first introduction to computers at the high school level. 

Paul Bebelos
Development Manager
Boston, MA

I am a quantitative analyst in finance so I do quite a lot of odds and ends programming. I am VERY impressed with Phrogram. The modular setup of your environment makes understanding the ultimate result of code lines and blocks much easier than many other environments that I've worked with. I have often thought of breaking my kids in to programming with VBA/Excel. But it would have been a stretch to keep their interest level high. Your method of working in graphics objects creates immediate interest. Bravo!

Steve Futch
Director, Quantitative Research
Atlanta, GA

I've been looking for a relatively simple development environment to use to introduce my son to computer programming. Phrogram still seems a little beyond his current capabilities, but not by much (he's only five, but he's very bright). We played around with "Scratch", but to do anything non-trivial is difficult. I think I will probably end up buying Phrogram. I work in Visual Studio 2005 so the Phrogram IDE is comfortably familiar. Anyway, I like your Phrogram. It's a good piece of work and I've been programming for 25+ years. 

Paul Drust
Independent Software Developer
Camarillo, CA

Phrogram intrigued me because it’s challenging enough to teach at the high school level as well as middle school. It effectively conveys what modern programming is all about, but with a plain-language syntax and straightforward semantics. It also avoids many of the complexities common in languages that while valuable for commercial use, are not as critical in an educational setting. 

Justin Yantho
High School Teacher
Oakville, ON

I have been teaching Phrogram to 6th and 7th graders since March 2007. One thing that attracted me to it is that the kids can find and correct syntax errors right away and then run their programs and see their effect; that helps keep them engaged. I also like how Phrogram makes it so easy to create visual programs. That may be very valuable in keeping girls more interested in programming.

John Newsom
Middle School Teacher
Seattle, WA

I am confident we can increase the number of students in CS programs using the motivation of game design ... I will be using Phrogram as a gateway for game development in my computer science course for the 2007-08 school year. Phrogram’s similarity to Visual Basic’s interface and code window will help ease the transition from game introduction activities to actual development projects.

Terrel Smith
High School Teacher
Sherwood, OR