courses for 12 yr olds

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This may not be the right forum for this but can anyone recommend a simple way of
getting a 12 yr old boy interested in LEARNING about computers. My grandson is quite bright and good at maths. He uses his tablet an awful lot and I am looking lto point him in the dilrection of learning about them as he is bound to want to use one before long if only for school work.

There is a bewikdering amount of stuff available on the web but I dont feel equipoed to evaluate it. It doesnt want to be too babyish but so far as I know he knows little more than how to find videos he wants . My son works in computer technology but as a result he sorts out any problems on demand so my grandson isnt much.past switching or simple searching. He has played quite a bit with minecraft.

Any suggestions much appreciated.

Thankyou very much all of you. A lot of food for thought hear. A good idea to consult his father ! I can offer to pay for anything he thinks might encourage him. But I will try the various things suggested.

They will probably help me !

Well your son should be a mentor if he know computers, you get him to teach your grandson assuming his son to do things on the computer. Any computer dad would be teaching their kids so i don;t understand why your son is not unless you have more than one son.

I had a mentor in my family that taught me how to pull apart computers when i was like 5 i spent my teens going through what we call hard rubbish which is when certain time each year residents can leave rubbish on the nature strip and the council will come pick it up for free.
it was a gold mine of computers back then and because of that they made a rule that you can't pick stuff from the rubbish piles and then it was no electrical goods because they knew.
We still used to do it but that is also who i learned computers because i built up a stockpile of parts to learn with.

When i was in High school i got into a course for multimedia design so making games and animations on the computer.

I then got a job in my 20s doing Audio Visual for a company that does TV production and music concerts which is all by computes it never worked out but i was there for a few years and i learned some things. I was already good at computer by this point but i saw things that are on the industrial side of computers.

Buy him a computer it does not have to be a good one it can be something 10 years old or more recent like 5 years old and used even and he can learn to do things on it because its his so it does not matter if he blows it up. Gaming is big now so he will be wanting one because his peers have one and play games. Kids want to do what their friends do.

The sky is the limit. There so much he or anybody could do.

Quite a bit later: I took on board the mentor idea and asked his dad for his opinion. He said the LAPTOP his son is using was slow but he could not afford a new one. I tentatively proffered the idea of paying for an update kit. This was quite expensive but I did it. He and his father (my son said the boy did most of the actual work under his direction very well) and it worked. My grandson was over the moon about it. It is the first real enthusiasm I have seen him show for a present !

He obviously takes after his grandad who was a great fix-it man, a telephone engineer always interested in how things work so I am continuing down that road. Thanks for all your interest. We might start looking at cars next time their car goes wrong - he needs to be involved in problem solving machinery I think.

Marking this as solved.