My 12 year old (going on 13) also started with Mindstorm. Then we dabbled in MIT battlecode (Java). I taught him some Python and he did Udacity Python intro cla

My 12 year old (going on 13) also started with Mindstorm. Then we dabbled in MIT battlecode (Java). I taught him some Python and he did Udacity Python intro class on his own. Then he discovered Ogre (C++) and has been obsessed with it ever since. I remember giving him an 20 minutes intro to HTML a couple of years ago and that was all he needed to start playing with web pages. A young mind seems particularly adept at absorb ing artificial languages. Don't underestimate your children.