Programming for a 7 year old

I’ve been getting the feeling that my family is getting pretty geeky with being in close proximity to Microsoft, when my wife and I started communicating via email and IM ... at home :). It took on a new level when my seven year old daughter sent me this email:

dad,

i found your blog on the internet. you should add colors like on my blog. also I saw the s word in the title.

love

shaan

Ok, Shaan, point taken, check out my new tagline. Now where would I be without advice from a 7 year old. Talking about 7 year olds and kids, I know I had fun working with BASIC, so I decided to locate a copy of GWBasic for my daughter to play around with.

Does anybody have recommendations for getting a kid who wants to dabble with programming, actually building cool windows apps … without having to read bulky manuals ?