On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:48:48 UTC, Ferretygubbins wrote:
Boy1 (13) is interested in learning how to write code and so I would like to
set him up with a toolkit for his PC (Windows) unfortunately my programming
days are somewhat in the past and restricted to MUMPS which was archaic even
back then. Has anyone any suggestions for a suitable platform? As ever the
cheaper the better.

As well as python, Scratch is popular especially on Raspberry Pi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch...mming_language)
http://scratch.mit.edu/

Owain