Microsoft makes a kind of neat kid-oriented environment called Small Basic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/ff384126.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-

Microsoft makes a kind of neat kid-oriented environment called Small Basic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/ff384126.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/ff384126.aspx Worth a shot. If you check out the blog, there are a number of tutorials available as well that can help kids get started.