Mostly geared to middle school and absolute beginners but worth mentioning: Scratch is a visual environment that will teach the basic of algorithms, loops, dec

Mostly geared to middle school and absolute beginners but worth mentioning: Scratch is a visual environment that will teach the basic of algorithms, loops, decisions, variables etc. using just drag and drop. It has sprites, sounds and everything you need to create rich flash games that can be exported to the web, so coding it's very rewarding, here is what a 12 y/o can create: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/203422373/ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/203422373/