I imagine most kids find visually engaging things immediately interesting. The initial hook I used to get my sister interested in programming was the Raphael Pl

I imagine most kids find visually engaging things immediately interesting. The initial hook I used to get my sister interested in programming was the Raphael Playground: http://raphaeljs.com/playground.html http://raphaeljs.com/playground.html I walked her through how to use the reference to do more and was surprised how little hand-holding she needed. She's 11, not 7, though, so this could be beyond your kid's level. What is your expertise in? My sister asked a lot of 'Why?'s and I imagine your kid will too, my area of expertise happens to be JavaScript (hence why I favor Raphael) so this worked well for me, but you would want to be prepared to have satisfactory answers.