I haven't read the article yet as Google+ is blocked at work. I'm coaching young kids for First Lego League tournaments this year and witnessed that the Legos

I haven't read the article yet as Google+ is blocked at work. I'm coaching young kids for First Lego League tournaments this year and witnessed that the Legos Mindstorm robot platform (http://www.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms http://www.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms) makes the kids really excited about programming. Here, one is introduced to programming through very easy graphical environment and can progress to high level language based programming in C, Java etc over time.