I have a relative whose age is 12 years, he is very interested in computers, but he knows nothing more than playing games. He plays a lot with Windows XP, reinstalls it, explores all Windows options, and so on. He is excited and capable to do more.

I got the idea of researching Web to find programming languages for kids, but I found that it will be hard for him. I got another idea of letting him learn HTML, I researched Web for open source tools and found an excellent HTML editor called Nvu, I will show him how to create rich web pages and insert his pictures into it.

The point is what beyond this, he should learn HTML tags and spend some time using the tool full features. The tool has many concepts and keywords that will encourage him to do more research to understand them.

I hope this will be the start, next I will research to find an easy tool to create multimedia applications like the Macromedia Dreamweaver tool, sure should be open source tool.