My similar recommendation: Buy any toy which will develop her vision, fingers/tactile sense, ears. They all lead to programming eventually. Note that I excluded taste/smell, because they are only required indirectly.

Exactly. Sometimes HN'ers scare me...

"Push her into a career"?? Who said anything about that?

I'm just trying to counter the natural tendency the world will have to push her away from that career through millions of little cues like toy selection, teacher and peer attitudes, etc.

normloman: Spot on ~!

I was extra-careful and zoomed the page to make sure I was clicking the upvote arrow on your comment.