On Monday, February 10, 2020 at 1:56:49 AM UTC+1, Char Jackson wrote:
On Sun, 9 Feb 2020 15:38:10 -0800 (PST), wrote:

It contains no real/decent programming language, unlike ms-dos that did contain QBASIC, and the C64 which also contained BASIC.

Something is better than nothing.

Microsoft Visual Studio is free. Not included within Windows itself, but
still easy to get.
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

Also, everyone who has Microsoft Office already has a Visual Basic (VBA)
development environment, so that could be another option. Each of the MS
Office applications has the VBA IDE built in.

Kids may not know this, they clueless and fresh behind the ears !

They may just click what is available on the computer

Though nowadays with internet and webbrowsing/surfing they are more likely to discover a website to offer programming or maybe via lego toys.

Though this assumes they have internet access and/or lego technic toys

Bye,
Skybuck =D