If you want to learn to program, you don't need lessons. You need to write a lot of code and have a great time doing it.
That's what programming is about. It's gotta be fun. Not fun like yay a badge but fun like NO MOM I HAVE TO FINISH THE LEVEL! That's why CodeCombathttps://codecombat.com/ is a multiplayer game, not a gamified lesson course. We won't stop until you can't stop--but this time, that's a good thing.
If you're going to get addicted to some game, get addicted to this one and become one of the wizards of the tech age.

A lot of robotics sets for kids contain tiny bricks that are complicated to put together and easy to lose. The Jimu Robot from UBTech (pronounced YOO-bee-teck) targets kids as young as 8 with a robotics kit that contains color-coded parts.
Coming to stores in late January or early February and ranging from $100 to $200 (about £70 to £135 or AU$140 to AU$285), the Jimu kits contain instructions for building complete robo-sets. For example, the kit for younger kids has you building a giraffe, trumpeting elephant and penguin -- but industrious tykes can off-road and build anything they want.

I’m just… staggered. I had always counted on my skills at paper airplane making to see me through the rough economic times, but it looks as though I’ll have to bow down to my new LEGO overlords instead.
What you’re looking at is an array of servos, motors, two LEGO NXT controller bricks and a whole lot of just plain cool.
Paper plane folding and shooting robot [The NXT Step via MAKE]

This scheme of work has been designed as an introduction to networking on the Raspberry Pi. Students will set up and use various networks, and will be introduced to basic networking through practical activities.
This scheme of work is specifically targeted towards KS3 and KS4 Computing, although the first two lessons could be used at KS2. It has been developed in the context of the 2014 National Curriculum in England, but is not specific to that programme.