I'm not exactly sure what is the fascination with these blocky-looking, dumbed down, drag-and-drop languages that look the same? First code that I wrote was in QBASIC at age 10 (I'm 19 right now), which I found to be very accessible and then later moved on to learning C# with the help of various XNA tutorials (which, I think is great as you get to make your own games as you go and that keeps you interested -- talk about gamification of learning!) and the help of a C# Design Patterns book (a terrible choice for a beginner, but you might as well learning the right way at the start).

In fact, the way I see it, by peddling this view of programming we're loosing something, something that I can't define and yet I can feel as being fundamental. Perhaps people (kids?) will develop an idea that programming is childish and when they grow up they will grow out of programming as well? I'm not sure. Actually, I remember a great experience toying around and programming Crysis through CryEngine 2 Sandbox editor at age 12, where you could design flowgraph for AI movement (enter this, go there, etc.) and other cool things, and the awesome thing was that you got this immediate feedback and could, for example, observe awesome battles between AIs. This could be a fascinating teaching route to explore, whereby students learn by programming existing (or new!) games in something like UE4 with blueprints, considering most people go into CS with the mindset of "I just want to make games, man" so we should try tapping into that mine.