Involving kids into programing - which language? [closed]

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What are some good tools for introducing kids to programming?

Long-long time ago I had a great book by Frank DaCosta about writing adventure games in Basic, it had a great influence on me.

I would like to show the world of programming to my child too but I have two problems:

I can not found books like DaCosta's (but we can replace it with our fantasy so not a big deal)
Which programming language should I use? Small Basic?

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