有一个小的，可实现的目标是学习任何技能的最好方法之一。编程也不例外。Python是一种很好的入门语言，因为它容易学习，简洁，仍然可以做高级的事情。Python只受限于你的想象力。

真正让别人感兴趣的一个方法是给他们一些他们可以在一个小时左右完成的小项目。当我最初开始学习python时，我玩的是Code Golf。他们有许多有助于教授编程基础知识的小挑战。我建议每天尝试解决一个挑战，然后运用所学到的概念。你必须让学习编程充满乐趣，否则你很快就会失去兴趣。

我认为“群体智慧”在这里起作用。大多数人是如何学习编程的?许多人声称他们是通过复制别人的程序来做到这一点的，通常是他们想用BASIC语言玩的游戏。

也许这条路对他也有用?

我建议从C/ c++开始。我发现它是几乎所有其他语言的良好基础。此外，不同版本的BASIC语言最多也会很不可靠，而且与实际的编程没有真正的关联。

我曾经教过编程，你哥哥有一个主要的优势，他比我的大多数学生都想学:)

如果你决定使用C语言，一个朋友有一个网站，上面有一些老一代使用的程序，被认为是基本的输入程序。其中更复杂的使用ncurses，这在某种程度上否定了它们作为教学辅助的作用，但其中一些是很小的东西，你可以在没有教的情况下学到很多东西。

我个人认为Python和Ruby会是很棒的第一语言。

编辑: 一夜之间出现的初学者编程作业列表可能正是你正在寻找的。

If he is interested than I wouldn't worry about focusing on games or whatnot. I'd just grab that beginners 'teach yourself x' book you were about to throw and give it him and let him struggle through it. Maybe talk about it after and then do another and another. After then I'd pair program with him so he could learn how shallow and lame those books he read were. Then I'd start having him code something for himself. A website to track softball stats or whatever would engage him. For me it was a database for wine back in the day.

在那之后，我会开始真正的书籍，领域设计等。

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.