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Re:Teaching Kids Java Programming by alva on Monday December 22, 2014 @05:23PM (#8785624)
I think Processing (https://processing.org/) is a great choice for first time programmers.
Re:Teaching Kids Java Programming by bsaul on Monday December 22, 2014 @05:54PM (#8785755)
I would say javascript is by far the best, not because of the language itself, but because it lets them work and modify something they're already using a lot : the web and a browser.

A close second could be swift for the same reason ( and also because you can start smoothly with just drag n dropping on a storyboard, then slowly add dynamic behavior with code).

Re:Teaching Kids Java Programming by debacle on Monday December 22, 2014 @05:27PM (#8785642)
Processing is fantastic, and it was easy to segue from processing to Eclipse in just a few lessons (it's about 20 lines of code)