He is not completely wrong... but AI is not the solution. Kids should learn about logic and spreadsheets... that is what 99% of the population needs. And to be able to run a small shop.

This was a good followup to that paper: Out of the Tar Pit http://curtclifton.net/papers/...

Still a dream in many places in Brooklyn NY....

Try Scratch using this guide:

Super Scratch Programming Adventure!: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games by the LEAD project.

It looks like a well organized way to build projects that explain the different features. Later you can try python or processing.

And if he is interested then C and C++ for the real thing :-)

From the book "Life with Unix" in the secion on games it gors sort of like this: There is a game called 'cc'. It seems we never finish it.