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I know I am little late with my answer, but, here it goes anyway...

I was looking into the same issue couple months ago for my son (11 years) and he just loves GameMaker. It is something like LEGO to build your own games - sometimes open-source, so you can peek how cool tricks are done.

Article here in PM is Learning how to program (for youngsters of any age). And BTW I love to play with GameMaker, too. Simple playable game you can create in an hour or less.

pmas
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In reply to Re: Teaching The New Generation by pmas
in thread Teaching The New Generation by growlf

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