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by grayclhn 3955 days ago
My oldest daughter is 6. I introduced her to programming by letting her type in a full-screen emacs buffer with large letters. We'd change the colors, make a "rainstorm" or "snowstorm" (fill the screen with '/' or '*'), type words together, etc., and for a while she had a notebook with commands like "M-x set-foreground-color" listed in it.

My youngest daughter prefers to rip the keys off my laptop, so she gets to do less typing....