There is already an ideal language to teach kids, and it exists right now. PHP. Whether or not you think it's a good language for building real world applicat

There is already an ideal language to teach kids, and it exists right now. PHP. Whether or not you think it's a good language for building real world applications, it does have a lot of going for it when considered as a teaching language. * It's weakly typed, dynamically typed and lacks variable declarations. * It doesn't require learning OOP concepts before you can use it. * The internet is full of free tutorials, documentation and knowledgeable people. * There is only one variant. It's in active development. * It's not so far removed from today's widely used languages. PHP -> Python is going to be easier than BASIC -> Python. * It can be used to build real things. Despite what we'd like to think, command line interfaces are hardly ever used by the general population. Kids use websites on a regular basis. This is what will get them excited about programming.