I think that as long as you or a group of people have access to purchase a personal computer or any devise that uses any type of network, you should have the right to having access to that network.

How nice your son is starting to getting interested in this wonderful world of computers, unfortunately programming languages evolve with time as well as needs and technological advances. I personally don't think that getting him an easy start will make him the next Bill Gates. When I started out I wish I knew Math like my fellow students, I knew some... but nothing like most of them, that put me aback for some time, I personally recommend him getting to learn basic math and move on to advance math and if he can then try to use [Mathematica]