This is happening in the UK. Small children learn Scratch, which, of all the decades of attempts at beginner's languages for kids, turns out to be the one that

This is happening in the UK. Small children learn Scratch, which, of all the decades of attempts at beginner's languages for kids, turns out to be the one that works: https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/127964136013/it-turns-out-scratch-is-probably-the-answer https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/127964136013/it-turns-ou... https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/137374628373/scratch-is-probably-still-the-answer https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/137374628373/scratch-is-... https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/137376311558/scratch-is-probably-still-the-answer https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/137376311558/scratch-is-... Apparently it's not just the academically bright kids, the middling ones get it catching their attention too. Later they get taught "textual languages", which I'm pretty sure will be Python. They also get taught to use the office apps - but they are introduced early to the concept that these machines that civilisation runs on are things they could tell what to do.