This is all well and great, and my comment is meant in no way to belittle these efforts. What good programmers have a lot of, though, is self-discipline, initi

This is all well and great, and my comment is meant in no way to belittle these efforts. What good programmers have a lot of, though, is self-discipline, initiative, and patience. If we can teach kids those core skills, they can use them to learn programming later or excel in any other profession they choose.