How to Teach Kids Programming - What worked for my kids

There are so many options to learn programming. How to choose the right one?

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[MaxWattage]

It is tricky. When I was growing up, the first home-computers had just been invented and so (1) they were easily the most exciting thing to play with and (2) a kid at home could write a computer games as entertaining as anything you could buy commercially. As such, I learned to program a my computer, as my board-games and jigsaw puzzles were far less exciting.
Today, games take huge teams and cost millions to develop and a kid at home will be disappointed by anything they produce themselves. It is a highly unequal battle for them, and it is far easier to just buy a game than develop one yourself. You can't motivate someone to fight an unwinnable battle.
Where the home user still has a chance to develop something that you can't simply buy off-the-shelf, is with code that controls hardware. Microcontrollers and the the Raspberry PI can be used to control motors and get information from sensors to animate unique custom toys, that their friends don't have and can't buy in the shops. Suddenly the result acquires money-can't-buy levels of cool.
TLDR: Robotics is how you make programming fun for kids these days. (which is made easier and cooler if the parent can design PCBs thanks to Robert Feranec)

[HemalChevli]

Also check out making 8 bit games in C by Steven hugg, it also has an online ide

[prasadd]

Dera sir...
I am using Altium 17 designer software and designed a circuit but got some errors like unknown pins, footprints not found and 32bit microcontroller pins getting sort while connecting wires
Cold you please help for those errors sir....I hope you understand.
Thank you.

[crackwitz]

your son made a clone of Flappy Bird, which was claimed to be one of the most addicting games of the past decade! making clones of popular games is one way around your rule of "only games you made yourself"