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I have personally introduced my 5 year old to writing Ruby code, just basic things like his Name = Age and then having him type his name to display his age. And showing him that he can add numbers together etc. We even did Thomas trains and I set up Tidmouth Sheds (an array) :D Now I've had some experience in schools and have studied the curriculum a bit more, I'm of the opinion we should be showing kids code from a young age -- but NOT forcing them to take lessons. More as a fun activity to build familiarity with coding concepts, some great ways to do this have been using Scratch and Kodu -- infact we had a year 8 class playing Kodu earlier today. and I was first shown it when some visiting year 5s came in to see the school.