You cannot mention efforts to teach programming to school-age children without talking about the work of Seymour Papert: https://www.media.mit.edu/events/paper

You cannot mention efforts to teach programming to school-age children without talking about the work of Seymour Papert: https://www.media.mit.edu/events/papert/ https://www.media.mit.edu/events/papert/ A few comments have already mentioned Logo, which came out of Papert's work.