The age recommendations on this are way off This article recommends Scratch for 12 and up. Scratch is good for kindergartners and up. The Snap fork is more ap

The age recommendations on this are way off This article recommends Scratch for 12 and up. Scratch is good for kindergartners and up. The Snap fork is more appropriate for older students: http://byob.berkeley.edu/ http://byob.berkeley.edu/ This article recommends Lego Mindstorms for ages 9-12 (and python and ruby). The average age of people who used to buy Lego Mindstorms was 28. The box recommends it for kids over 10. Lego has a robotics kit for younger kids called WeDo. I would not introduce python or ruby to a 9 year old, unless you want them to hate programming. Teaching programming for its own sake is a recipe for disaster. And again it's missing so much. For coding robots to do things see sites like http://fightcodegame.com/ http://fightcodegame.com/ http://robocode.sourceforge.net/ http://robocode.sourceforge.net/ http://www.nessbots.com/ http://www.nessbots.com/ For making games, I'd start with Scratch for < 13 kids, but for older kids see sites like http://www.playmycode.com/ http://www.playmycode.com/ http://pixieengine.com/ http://pixieengine.com/ https://www.scirra.com/construct2 https://www.scirra.com/construct2