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Show him how to make his favorite game, it's probably just Angry Birds or w/e with lots of tutorials available in lots of languages for you to get up to speed and reduce to digestible simplicity, and then discuss the things he would and can now change about it.

If that doesn't get him interested he's probably never going to get interested.

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Yes! Games are great.

A fun easy framework for game-making is LÖVE. https://love2d.org/ You can show the kid some games made using LÖVE (https://www.love2d.org/wiki/Category:Games), do some of these tutorials (https://www.love2d.org/wiki/Category:Tutorials)...

Even if you don't know Lua, it's so easy to pick up (http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/). And figuring out a new language with the 8 yr old could be cool too.

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