While this is not truly for kids since I was teaching university students I always wanted to investigate if domain specific languages should be used more. We d

While this is not truly for kids since I was teaching university students I always wanted to investigate if domain specific languages should be used more. We did some unpublished experiments for an AI class on agent development where groups developed a card playing agent in Prolog and a domain specific language for that card game. The DSL agents were quite a bit more sophisticated. My point being...I think usually we assume kids should be taught general programming. It might be more fruitful to pick a cool domain and a language suited for that domain. Unfortunately a lot of the programming exercises/projects across all age groups are rather boring for lots of the students from anecdotal evidence. I'm envisioning something like this: Educator: Tell me something that's cool. Kid 1: Pokemon! Kid 2: Football! Educator: Ok, tomorrow we'll learn how to program (Pokemon stuff here) and (football stuff here). Educator goes home, configures the PokemonLanguage and FootballLanguage and starts teaching that language with Pokemon/Football specific examples. Does it scale...probably not but we're in the business of doing things that done't scale, right?