This is a great article. Learning to code a little and do some simple programming is something my own daughter wants to tackle this summer. I'm not the world's most patient person, so I've been a little intimidated about the idea of teaching programming to a 10yr old, but it is something we are going to tackle.

I'm curious as to how other parents have gone about this. I was considering some kind of pair programming environment and possibly beginning Ruby or some basic HTML/CSS/JavaScript. I feel like either would be easy to get into, but the more fragmented nature of the latter would make things more confusing (having to learn 3 technologies instead of one language).