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I currently have two students (a 45 year old and his 10 year old son). They came expressly to learn Arc lisp. So far my approach with the younger one has been to give him a skeleton of a program to play tic-tac-toe, and then we're gradually filling it in. Right now we're three sub-problems deep learning about recursion, and tic tac toe probably seems much harder than when we started :) My general approach has been to give him a day or two to solve a problem before working with him on the solution. The idea being that he'll remember more once he's struggled with it by himself. But several times now I realized that the problem I gave him was too hard and spent the next session working on something simpler. So I'm learning a lot.