I was a Commodre-64 addicted youth right down to 'drawing' with coloured characters on the screen using keyboard codes and painful cursor movement. I had a kids book of programming fun for BASIC on the c64 which helped. Basically anything that has a colorful result will capture attention. High-school taught me pascal and I in turn taught my public-school brother a few tricks with colours and text and before I knew it he had a character bouncing around the screen by himself. In essence, anything which is easy to create colourful and interactive programs (C is not easy, pascal is pretty good, any other suggestions? ) Is ideal to capture the imagination. You could always install a C64 emulator like Frodo...;-)
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I was a Commodre-64 addicted youth right down to 'drawing' with coloured characters on the screen using keyboard codes and painful cursor movement. I had a kids book of programming fun for BASIC on the c64 which helped. Basically anything that has a colorful result will capture attention. High-school taught me pascal and I in turn taught my public-school brother a few tricks with colours and text and before I knew it he had a character bouncing around the screen by himself. In essence, anything which is easy to create colourful and interactive programs (C is not easy, pascal is pretty good, any other suggestions? ) Is ideal to capture the imagination. You could always install a C64 emulator like Frodo... ;-)