I am teaching my 8 year old son to program. He's really into robots so I figured we'd be pushing towards getting him mindstorms once the programming clicks. I

I am teaching my 8 year old son to program. He's really into robots so I figured we'd be pushing towards getting him mindstorms once the programming clicks. I am teaching him C and Perl. First things we did were simple loops and hello world programs. Next was a simple number guessing game (one screen of code in Perl). Next will be the number guessing game in C. Really, what helps early on is a teacher. I am able to give him assignments. Ask him to make changes to his code, etc. He is starting to get it but it is a lot of work at first. Maybe an apprenticeship model would be ideal?