mgenzel

I'm writing questions for the Geek-o-Meter, and would love your opinion on whether our questions are a sufficient measure of a true geek (Sample qs: How many times you forwarded xkcd? Do you prefer Batman or Superman?) Also would love suggestions for any other questions.

http://say.gg/geeky

I want to teach my son (4.5 years) "programming" (obviously, too early for general-purpose programming, but a limited-environment language can certainly be taught). I'm considering writing my own little language/"interpreter". Is there anything already out there that's worthwhile? The options I've seen is Scratch (8-year+) and Logo (seems boring to me for this age). Some others are listed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_programming_language , I haven't checked all of them out though (e.g., Karel looks intriguing).