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Discussion on: How to teach programming to my 10 years old nephew?

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J Beetz

The answer to How do I teach him? Is simply whatever gets him to stay at the keyboard, would be a good start.
For me it was exciting to learn BASIC by printing my name to the screen in a loop. I still feel that same excitement today when learning something new! This was on a commodore 64 sometime in the 80's.
Today, there's a lot more available. I gave my daughter (then 7) her own raspberry pi, she was super excited to learn about ping. Pingpath blew her mind.
Sometimes the smallest of concepts can awake very strong interests that can be a lifeline later on in life.