I agree (at least from personal experience w/classes my son has taken) that most "programming" courses, especially those using Scratch-like and gamified environ

I agree (at least from personal experience w/classes my son has taken) that most "programming" courses, especially those using Scratch-like and gamified environments, have taught him absolutely nothing -- they'll get a sprite to move or whatever through trial-and-error or copy/paste, but I don't think there's much learning -- they just get "games" that look like total crap compared to what they're used to without the slightest clue how to get from here to there. (Whereas when we programmed text games in Z80 asm or Basic, our result was pretty much on-par with what you'd expect to get from somewhere else.) OTOH, as a developer, teaching your own kid programming, if you are passionate about it, certainly beats teaching them nothing.