[zappo2938]

Have you tried Code Combat? [1] Or, Vim Adventures? [2] Of course, you might skip the vim because real programmers use emacs.

[1] https://codecombat.com

[2] http://vim-adventures.com/

[sdegutis]

We all know real programmers use butterflies. I've been letting my son focus on the code rather than the editor, so he's using Eclipse per the aforementioned book's recommendation.