这是一本很棒的书，我的小弟弟们曾经学过:

http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/

当然，最重要的是在读完这本书之后立即开始一个真正有用的程序。

我认为一旦他掌握了基本知识(变量，循环等)，你应该试着帮助他找到他感兴趣的具体内容，并帮助他学习实现这一目标的必要条件。我知道如果我对某件事感兴趣，我会更倾向于去做，也更有动力去做。同时，确保让他在一些更棘手的问题上挣扎，没有什么比你自己解决问题的那一刻更令人满足的了。

我同意Leac的观点。有时候无聊的时候我会玩Scratch。这是一种非常有趣的查看代码的可视化方式。

它的工作原理是，他们给你一堆“积木”(这些看起来像乐高积木)，你可以叠起来。通过堆叠这些块，并与画布(游戏邦注:你可以在此放置精灵和图像)进行交互，你便能够创造游戏，电影，幻灯片等等。这真的很有趣。

当它完成时，你可以直接上传到Scratch网站，这是一个类似youtube的Scratch应用程序门户。不仅如此，您还可以从网站上下载任何提交的内容，并从其他Scratch应用程序中学习或扩展。

Something you should be very mindful of while teaching your brother to program is for him not to rely too heavily on you. Often when I find myself helping others they will begin to think of me as answer book to all of their questions and instead of experimenting to find an answer they simply ask me. Often the best teacher is experimentation and every time your brother has a question like "What will happen if I add 2 to a string?" you should tell him to try it out and see for himself. Also I have noticed that when I cannot get a concept through to someone, it helps to see some sample code where we can look at each segment individually and explain it piece by piece. As a side note people new to programming often have trouble with the idea of object oriented programming, they will say they understand it when you teach it to them but will not get a clear concept of it until actually implementing it.

Python编程绝对初学者

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Robert Read写了一个很有用的指南，如何成为一个程序员，它涵盖了广泛的编程问题，初学者会发现很有帮助。