In my view, there's a difference between programming and computer science, though I could forgive the Rep for using one as a generic term for the other. Disclaimer: I'm a programmer and definitely not a computer scientist.
As I mentioned in another recent thread, "programming" doesn't need to consist of a semester of C, or a slog through Horowitz and Sahni. My kids simply think of programming in terms of "making the computer do things." They like to play with Scratch, and have made me promise to teach them Python. My daughter's interested in math, and I've showed her how to solve equations and graph things using Maxima. We have a couple of Raspberry Pi's, so the kids have gotten comfortable with the command line, configuration files, etc.
Just find ways for the kids to do things and make things using computers, with a bias towards letting some of those things resemble programming.
As I mentioned in another recent thread, "programming" doesn't need to consist of a semester of C, or a slog through Horowitz and Sahni. My kids simply think of programming in terms of "making the computer do things." They like to play with Scratch, and have made me promise to teach them Python. My daughter's interested in math, and I've showed her how to solve equations and graph things using Maxima. We have a couple of Raspberry Pi's, so the kids have gotten comfortable with the command line, configuration files, etc.
Just find ways for the kids to do things and make things using computers, with a bias towards letting some of those things resemble programming.