OK, but teaching Pascal? Why?! I learned Pascal when I studied programming in the 1980s. I even got a job with it later in the 1980s. That was thirty years ago!

Teaching kids an ancient language that's compiled (so you can't sit at a command line and experiment), one that no one uses today, and one that forces you into object-oriented programming every time - this is doing them a disservice.

Teach them Python! You can simply type `python` at the command line and then `2 + 2` and you actually get results. Kids love getting results immediately.

Also, Python has all sorts of modern libraries that kids can use for graphics or digital audio.