That is exactly the way I tried introducing more useful alternatives to spending time behind a pc to my younger brother and sister. By showing them how they could write mods or even complete games with programs such as Cinema4D, Maya, Photoshop, Unity...

It didn't stick very long, but I hope I had some positive influence on their life in that aspect.

It is a very interesting subject though on how developers got into development! My first programming experiences was with mIRC and its funky scripting language to make simple irc bots.