It depends a little bit on the age of the children. One important thing to consider is that the sooner they can see visuals that are produced by their code, the

It depends a little bit on the age of the children. One important thing to consider is that the sooner they can see visuals that are produced by their code, the more they will be able to understand the cause/effect of programming. I've taught groups of middle schoolers to code with Processing and they've far exceeded my expectations. Daniel Shiffman's resources (http://natureofcode.com/ http://natureofcode.com/ and his YouTube series) are great. You can also get things up and running really quickly with LOVE2d and Lua. love2d.org