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I've been looking for a way to introduce my children to programming.

I've been considering several different languages to start them on and Lua has turned out to be a great choice. My children both love minecraft and we've been writing programs in Lua for the computercraft mod: http://www.computercraft.info/

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I agree. I've been teaching my 7-year old son to code and Lua has been a great choice for him so far. After having him play around with Scratch and learn some javascript with Code Monster, we got him going with some game development in Lua with the Corona SDK. It's proven to be pretty intuitive for him and he's having a lot of fun. He was super stoked when we first put his "game" on an iPad and play around with it. I'd definitely recommend it to other parents looking for something to start their kids on.

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