I agree this language is easier than say Ruby or Python, but I do remember in 4th and 5th grade (8 to 10 uears old) learning a bit of BASIC from a couple books

I agree this language is easier than say Ruby or Python, but I do remember in 4th and 5th grade (8 to 10 uears old) learning a bit of BASIC from a couple books my father gave me. By the end of 5th grade I had written a calculator, a stopwatch and a couple other items in BASIC(programming exercises from the book). Then in high school I decided to learn some Ruby and had a good time tinkering with that and the things I learned from BASiC made it relatively easy. The point is, a kid can pick up on that stuff if they want to learn it and BASIC is defiantly simple enough to "start with" and I would guess so is Python and Ruby which don't have too much semantic complexity.