Let them eat cake
summary
A small teaching language named Catpie exists to let one-day or multi-day workshops show realistic programming without installs, using a gamified cat scenario where students write code to move, check, draw and interact with a cat. It supports dynamic types, containers, control flow and functions, emphasizes concise, location-aware error messages, runs entirely in the browser with offline-after-load behavior, and is implemented in C++ and open source. Early use in outreach correlates with participants later choosing CS.
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