You need to make it part of play. Make it fun.

Computers were fun to me because I played games and was motivated to maximize the meager capabilities of my IBM XT, and wanted to cheat in games. So I learned all sorts of things there.

In computer class, there was no exploration, no fun. Oregon Trail was cool, but didn't capture the imagination.

I hated Math in school for many years, but my grandfather tutored me. Then I discovered puzzles and how to apply math to problems that had some relevance to me.