Responses can and should be read with a modicum of 😉 , And i also started off with a ZX81 & expansion pack, shite tape player and a mountain of magazines with coding errors in the games, i think they printed them faulty on purpose.

Incidentally my four year old completed LightBot recently and enjoyed it:
http://lightbot.com/index.html

It was great watching her learn some fundamentals of coding (very simple lists of instructions with sub-routines).

I think the thrust of these “teach kids to code” initiatives isn’t really to create a generation of professional programmers.

It’s more about learning how a computer works, learning to think logically, and empowering them in the increasingly digital world they will grow up in.