There are board games that teach similar concepts. I've played Robot Turtles (http://www.robotturtles.com/ http://www.robotturtles.com/) with my 5 year old at

There are board games that teach similar concepts. I've played Robot Turtles (http://www.robotturtles.com/ http://www.robotturtles.com/) with my 5 year old at a friends place and they all appeared to enjoy it. I'm not sold on whether it's teaching "programming" any more than any sequence toy/game does...