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2 months ago- Microbit was designed for just this: https://microbit.org/
- There’s a whole ecosystem of addon peripherals to make fun, tactile games: https://microbit.org/buy/accessories/
- It even runs scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/microbit
- Once older, if still interested, they can graduate to Arduinos or Raspberry Pis.
- Especially for smaller kids (< 12 according to Python researchers), coding abstractions may be a bit hard to grasp and they may get discouraged. A little more of a gentle ramp might be physical kits like Snap Circuits: https://elenco.com/snapcircuits/