If the kid doesn't seem interested in learning a general purpose, turing-complete programming language (a lot of kids don't at that age), then don't try shoving it down as throat.
Instead, get him into languages that have a limited instruction set. this link:
came my way a while ago, and it has a few examples of things that you could use. Light-bot should be a lot of fun for most kids, and it could give kids a good foot hold into greater abstraction.
Instead, get him into languages that have a limited instruction set. this link:
http://marshallbrain.com/kids-programming.htm
came my way a while ago, and it has a few examples of things that you could use. Light-bot should be a lot of fun for most kids, and it could give kids a good foot hold into greater abstraction.