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My eldest daughter is eight, and I haven't taught her to code yet. I'm such a bad parent :-)
We'll do "Hello World!" tonight after school!
Awesome!
Language choice is important, though. If you're proficient in JavaScript, I would suggest that, since later on, you can have a for loop updating an absolute position of an IMG dom element ("animation") for relatively little effort -- and this, hopefully, will make her realize that programming is cool. When she starts doing collision-detection for a kitten-based game, you'll know you've succeeded :)