While I did start with BASIC at age 7, my first foray into computer programming was with Livecode. LiveCode (Formerly Revolution) is a spinoff of Apple's HyperCard that fares incredibly well in commercial and educational markets. www.runrev.com has the details. I used to teach 5th graders programming with it, and it's so simple yet so powerful that we'd build networked starship simulation software for a local space education center (www.spacecamputah.org). It's an incredible platform to build on, and it has all the types of control structures and interactivity you'd hope for (Except objects, kind-of: I would teach OOP on a limited basis, since your GUI elements behave like objects; but there are no real logic-only objects in LiveCode).

I've been volunteering my professional skills at a local non-profit education institution for the last 6 years, and they always have something for me to do. Between programming a website to writing some kioskware, there is always something they can use. Find one that you're interested in and schedule a meeting with the program director or their technology director, tell them you'd like to volunteer, and they'll put you to work.

Could you elaborate on this patch? I've tried it with no effect, including logging out, switching the type of this key, etc.