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We spent the weekend here basically: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/room/j1106/

* Microblocks: https://microblocks.fun/

* MIT App Inventor: https://appinventor.mit.edu/

* Hedy: https://www.hedycode.com/

Hedy in particular was extremely good: it teaches kids to code in text in Python, building up from what looks like natural text into real code. The session was given by a primary school teacher (who was Dutch, which helped as my lad is Dutch/British and that's his first language).

She had excellent results with dyslexic kids, it turns out the black/white nature of code combined with the detail really helps them. Materially improves spelling.

Age? My son is 10 but there were younger kids there. My daughter is 7 and my son taught her how to use Scratch when he got home. So she's old enough. Although she is bright (skipped a year at school and the work she is doing is two years ahead of that).