Suggestions are needed....
.......for interesting software to be loaded onto a laptop which a bright 11yr old grandaughter will be getting.
She's getting it because she goes to a school where all the homework HAS to be done on-line and where 95 % of all interaction with the school (travel, school meals/ paying for extra classes etc) is also on-line.
As windows 8 will almost certainly be the default OS - will this limit choice? Not being a boring old fart like wot I is she sees no problems with touch screen interfaces (she picked up Granny's iPad and was whizzing around it in 5 mins last Christmas).
Anyone with first hand experience of what might be useful/challenging/ interesting in here?
Oh, and not hideously expensive would be good as well.
The Ancient Mariner