Funny this link just popped up, I was just marvelling at my 13 yr old son's self taught progression at programming. He's taken about 2 years to get from batch scripts to c# and unity... mostly via youtube videos. https://cyb3rgames.itch.io/trench-warfare < his latest efforts completed in about a week.

Kids these days love to learn via self paced youtube

*note, if you're going to let your kids watch youtube, either put your own anti-advert features in on your network or pay for youtube premium. You tube adverts are abhorrent on their own let alone the constant breaking up of what self paced education they might be getting from it.