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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 22 April 2012 07:40:57PM 1 point [-]

I started a couple of my younger brothers and sisters on Scratch, and they got quite far. Now my sixth grade brother has downloaded a mod for his digital camera, and he wrote a calculator program in Lua for it. And my fifth grade sister has been teaching herself Python using this book:

http://www.briggs.net.nz/snake-wrangling-for-kids.html

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