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by seaourfreed 887 days ago
Start with Scratch. You can build full side-scrollers there. They bring in other kids. Your son will get people playing, testing, giving great feedback. He will build followers.

The goal should be to get him in the feedback look for quick wins, and repeat.

Scratch is built for 9 year olds. Games is where all kids tend to go. It has very good side scrollers.

Wait until he masters while loops, variables, state transitions and 2D graphics before going beyond Scratch. Scratch = open source, massive community, designed for kids. Includes flow diagram programming and source code. Progress for kids