I would recommend also watching some screencasts - they are generally created in context of a specific technology not a language, though if there's Python code displayed, that'll do :). The point is - they're created by some good programmers and watching how good programmers program is a good thing. You and your brother could do some peer programming as well, that might be an even better idea. Just don't forget to explain WHY you do something this way and not that way. I think the best way to learn programming is from good examples and try not to even see the bad ones.

如果他感兴趣，那些小细节不就是好地方吗?使用python时，您已经切断了GUI，这样就不会有困惑了。为什么不选择一个项目，一款游戏或其他东西，然后执行它呢?经典的高低数字猜谜游戏可以简单地从命令行中用20-30行代码(当然取决于语言)实现，并为您提供变量、条件、循环和用户输入。

一些额外的信息可以附加到Jason Pratt之前关于Alice的帖子中…具体来说，是一个讲故事的爱丽丝变体。

虽然这项研究针对的是中学女生，但你可能会觉得凯特琳·凯莱赫撰写的白皮书很有趣。

There is a book called Code. I can't remember who wrote it, but it goes through the basics of a lot of stuff that we (programmers) know and take for granted that people we talk to know also. Everything from how do you count binary to how processors work. It doesn't have anything dealing with programming languages in it (well from what I remember), but it is a pretty good primer. I will admit that I am also of the school that believes you have to know how the computer works to be able to effectively program things for it.

我认为，因为你想学习编程而学习编程，永远比不上因为你想做某事而学习编程。如果你能找到一些你弟弟感兴趣的东西，因为他想让它起作用，你可以把谷歌留给他，他会做的。他会让你在他身边检查他是否走对了路。

I think one of the biggest problems with teaching programming in the abstract is that it's not got a real-world context that the learner can get emotionally invested in. Programming is hard, and there has to be some real payoff to make it worth the effort of doing it. In my case, I'd done computer science at uni, learned Pascal and COBOL there, and learned BASIC at home before that, but I never really got anywhere with it until I became a self-employed web designer back in the 90s and my clients needed functionality on their web sites, and were willing to pay about 10x more for functionality than for design. Putting food on the table is a hell of a motivator!

所以我学习了Perl，然后是ASP/VBScript，然后是JavaScript，然后是Flash/ActionScript，然后是PHP——所有这些都是为了让我想要的东西发生。

我浏览了一下评论，似乎没有人提到www.CodeBetter.com上的编程基础。虽然它需要一些基础知识，但它肯定是学习过程中的下一步。