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e12e · 2013-05-24 · Original thread
My recommendation would be to get him started with something like python and pygame. Or perhaps racket, eg:

http://docs.racket-lang.org/draw/overview.html#(part._.Lines...

Or even processing.

Some of my early programming was messing with graphics -- first in BASIC and Assembler on the Amiga -- later on a Casio calculator (mixing the worst of assembler and BASIC, with performance lower than our old VIC20) -- using the book "Mathematical Toursit"[1] as guide.

I was very proud when after 4 hours I could look at the screen and see a black-and-white mandelbrot :-)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0716732505

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