Hi
Wanted to share a great Corona experience I had with my 9-yr-old today.
He’s been making games in drag-and-drop Hyperpad (on the iPad) for a while and I’ve been trying to entice him onto a bit more real coding. I’ve long been a fan of Corona and thought he might be ready to try it. Plus I saw that you’d updated Corona Cannon and that seemed like a perfect starting-point… modifying something that someone else has written is easily the best way to learn to code, imho.
I set it up on a laptop with a text editor, with a wired iPad for testing, and live builds enabled. (Got to say I nearly lost him while setting up provisioning profiles… it’s a shame you have to do all that before a 9-yr-old can get to the fun bit of changing the line that says ammo = { ‘normal’ } to ammo = { ‘bomb’ } … but that’s not Corona’s fault at all, and I guess only Apple and Goog could really sort that out. Advice to anyone else trying though: allow a good hour for a cold setup beforehand.)
But - when he did get to realising that he could beat level 8 by changing that bit of code above - that was a good moment 
After that he was properly into it; changing the wording on the title screen; changing random numbers (e.g. the friction of the ball) and spotting what it did in the game; working out how to add level 11.
Good work Corona - thank you.
Tom