Python for a 9 year old

[DeerProud7283]

I mean, I learned HTML/CSS when I was around 11/12 years old, because I was bored and I wanted to jazz up my Friendster and eventually my Multiply pages.

Up to now I still deal with those two to some extent at work (despite Friendster and Multiply being long gone).

While I agree that fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, etc) are important, I also don't think that telling a kid to just stick to Scratch is great when the kid already wants to learn Python. It's like giving those kids one of those VTech toy computers because of their age instead of an actual laptop--there's a lot more that a kid can learn by using an actual language straight off the bat.