[pjmlp]

Why so? I was already looking at Assembly listing at the age of 12.

When I was 16, I enjoyed using higher level languages but the real fun was doing Assembly.

Kids these days real need to get some of this exploratory desire back.

[timthorn]

Fully agree - children have amazing capacity to learn complex things. It's one reason why I'm nervous about code clubs using Scratch; the children can cope with more, so why limit them?

[userbinator]

Indeed, a lot of demosceners are in this age range too, and look what they can do...