My kids never showed much interest in program despite my encouragement, but this year our high school changed its programming curriculum to follow Harvard's CS5

My kids never showed much interest in program despite my encouragement, but this year our high school changed its programming curriculum to follow Harvard's CS50 model: https://cs50.harvard.edu https://cs50.harvard.edu The first half of the course is mostly in C and then switches to Python, and I really think it is a very well designed course that get students doing some interesting stuff very quickly while building a solid foundation for future learning. There is an online version of the course and students can watch all of the videos and lectures. I believe there is also a teacher training program for the curriculum. I was surprised when my son came home and started asking me questions about malloc and free, but he has learned a lot in a very short period of time.