This past year I taught Python to 7th and 8th graders.

But to 6th graders I taught CLI basics and Inform7 (all on the command line).

It was one of the most successful "programming and computer basics" courses I've ever run. A fair amount of custom tooling to make it run smoothly, but a shared VPS for the students and some deploy scripts made it possible to not only make individual games but also collaborate on a larger scale game written collaboratively (each user writing their own set of rooms which was compiled automatically into a full game).