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At OSCON, Nat Torkington gave a great talk about teaching kids programming with Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/ http://scratch.mit.edu/), which looks like a great environment to get kids into programming at a fairly young age. In a world where kids have so many distractions and a computer is not novel and exciting (like the Commodore was), you need to keep their attention by keeping them engaged somehow.