[kung-fu-master]

As school teacher I think that "Introduction to programming" should increase motivation on further learning of programming.

About 10-20 years ago it was very simple task. Computers and programming were very exciting.

What has changed? Nowadays there are a lot of interesting and distracting factors like computer games, TV, Internet etc.

I think our primary goal is to make learning computer science more interesting and fun. It must be more interesting than computer games and TV. It is really interesting than computer games! We just need to show that for our students.

How can we do that? For example, at our school I have made 3D robots simulator which has own simple programming language. Students are programming virtual robot to reach some goals. It's like game. Also I have made "real" robot based on Arduino with IR sensors.

As a result I can see increased interest and motivation of my students.