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If she's interested in games may Kodu would be a good starting point: http://fuse.microsoft.com/kodu/

It's a visual programming language for creating games, it's very simple to create fun and playable games. It would certainly would as a good introduction to modelling and sequencing, which would lead on to "real" programming well.

I can print wirelessly on my MacBook, I don't see any reason why you wouldn't be able to on an iPad.

If Europeans had already developed the idea of private property, then why did we find it necessary to take the land of these ingenious populations?

This is a really exciting feature of Rails 3, having Rails as a key library is a great step forward.

I was writing a small sinatra app recently, and really wanted some active record functionality (serialization and validation), this would make this process trivial from now on.

I was recently shown this by a colleague. Will definitely be trying it out with my students soon.