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A few bits and pieces for folks looking to teach their kids how to program. Microsoft has been sponsoring a "Small Basic" language creation and usage for sometime. It's not on a full version 1.0!
http://blogs.msdn.co...-0-is-here.aspx


The other site has tons of information on small lesson plans and areas to attack to help you usher in some knowledge for your 2.0 mini-mes!

http://www.teachingk...rogramming.com/

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Designed for children ages 10 and up, this program consists of multiple one-hour teaching units called recipes. Each recipe (or lesson) has 4 to 5 components) and is designed to teach 1-3 core programming concepts. The recipes are designed to be taught sequentially

Their database one is a bit more.. ah.. interesting:

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We have two versions of this course. One is designed specifically for high-school aged girls and uses data around dating to peak their interest.

There's also a small section for some game called Kodu

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This workshop is designed for kids ages 5 and up. We run this with kids working in small groups to create worlds.