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My kids don't have tablets but this would be the application that would make me buy an iPad for them. Very close in spirit to the old LOGO, but with the added bonus of laying the foundation using a real language—real as in something used in our industry and with concepts that are easily transferable to other languages.

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You can also put an ipad into an kiosk mode where they cannot exit an app without a pin. This will help keep the ipad as a 'power on to code' system and not let them drift into other apps.

I am a strong believer in kids having access to technology, but also creating the frameworks in which they can learn how to keep themselves safe.

I grew up around a software company and I was exposed to computers and the internet from a very young age; I had my first computer that could be considered "my own" at about five years of age (a little hand-me-down desktop from my father's company) and cut my teeth on that, building little static websites, stuff like that.

It's definitely what lead to my lifelong interest in computing (as much as I can't stand this industry sometimes) and a healthy career in IT infrastructure.

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