Depends on the age of the kids. You'll most probably cannot compete with their
game console, so forget the 3D graphics ;-)
As already suggested playing and doing experiments - something they can participate should awake their interest.
Maybe you can type a tiny program, show them how it works, and let them play with it? Then add some more functionality, maybe as a kind of game?
Some ideas, mainly for younger kids:
- let the computer guess a number between 1 and "impressively high" - lower/higher, etc...
- let the kids enter their initials, the computer prints a greeting with the full name...(how can it know that?)
- do you remember the Apple ][ demo program Animals?
- the CPAN Games directory...
- simple encryption/decryption routine (1=A, 2=B, ... type)...
- randomly generated sentences; let kids chose the words...
- a simple calculator using eval...
- Fibonacci? Faculty!
- a mathematical game of the kind add 3 to the year you were born, subtract ... bla bla ... minus size of your shoes ... finally print their age...
- Turtlegraphics...
- remote controlling something... (if you have two PCs)..
- ...
Don't know if that really is what you expected, but a pre-nerd in the
right age will become a dedicated follower ;-)
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