Check out Alice (http://www.alice.org http://www.alice.org) or Kodu (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/proj

Check out Alice (http://www.alice.org http://www.alice.org) or Kodu (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/). They're both very visually-oriented languages; great to teach the basics of coding, without having to introduce someone to technical terms right off the bat.