<p>mathmom,</p>
<p>Thanks, and I'd love Mathson's advice. I think my son's motivation is to draw his friends into sharing his interests. Using Visual Basic and Flash to program games seems like a good way to start.</p>
<p>I asked this question on another thread and they said build and take apart some computers, so we'll do some of that. Also got a suggestion to do some robotics, so maybe we'll probably do Lego FIRST robotics league in the fall.</p>
<p>My son also wants to learn Java and Python, although I don't know what for?
Could you ask Mathson, why would he want to learn these languages and what's the easiest way to do it?</p>