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Though it saddens me to see most teenagers fiddling with their mobile phone as they walk down the street, your son might just be motivated by the prospect of developing mobile phone apps in the future ... so you could try introducing him to one or more of the following programming languages:

Apart from being used to develop mobile phone apps, all the above languages have excellent graphics libraries, and superior performance to scripting languages (update: because they are all statically typed). See also:

Android software development (wikipedia)
iOS SDK (wikipedia)
Comparison of programming languages (wikipedia)

Oh, and just in case it helps teaching Perl to your son, I also keep a list of Learning Perl Links.

In reply to Re: Advice on learning Perl and graphics by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Advice on learning Perl and graphics by Dr. Subtilis

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