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by bink-lynch 4820 days ago
My daughter 5/6th grade was using Khan Academy:

https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/tutorials/programming-basics

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Khan Academy is great. I was teaching my cousin (12) when I was home for Christmas and even my niece (7) was learning writing her own snippets to draw smiley faces and such. Definitely is a good resource for teaching the basics of programing (variables, functions, syntax, etc).
Yeah, the Khan Academy stuff was specifically targeted towards teaching children. I'd say it's a good place to start.