Thanks very much for the post--I'll check that out. We had tried the Alice program with DD at the end of last year, but there were some bugs and she got discouraged (because it wasn't working the way it was supposed to--not what I wanted her to learn!). I had also bought the "Hello, World" book about programming and had worked through the first chapter or two with her but it's hard for me to find time to work ahead of DD to make it interesting for her (i.e., not waiting for me to figure it out in real time, as I am not a computer whiz).