Brian! I'm sorry you forgot Snap4Arduino in your list. It should be the first!
[Hey, I hope you see I'm kidding 
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About recommendation for beginners... I think he matter is the context of your projects. In general, Snap! is the best option. But it you will work with microcontrollers, or with 3D printers or with some Internet services... Then you can use "our Snap! family projects".
As Brian has said, there are no official extensions. But all this list (adding Snap4Arduino
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And about this, Brian, I want to ask you again to reorganize our forum categories. You moved a lot of subcategories to Advanced Topics, but I don't like it. My proposal:
- "Advanced Topics" can have only "Development" subcategory. We can create more subcategories later. Yes we will move there all the topics about hacking, complex questions, JS...
- I like "Mods & Extension" being a main category. Maybe it is not for Advanced topics, only basic questions about our extensions projects. Then, "Snap4Arduino" subcategory will return there. Maybe you can create other subcategories for the others main projects (it would be like the "official extensions" list).
- "Feature requests" also a main category. Inside it, can return the other "concrete feature requests subcategories".
Thanks,
Joan