起初，我对不同的程序是如何工作的很感兴趣，所以我从查看源代码开始。然后，当我开始了解程序的工作原理时，我会改变某些参数，看看会发生什么。所以基本上我在学会写字之前就学会了阅读。巧合的是，大多数人都是这样学英语的。

所以如果我想教别人如何编程，我会给他们一个小程序，让他们试着阅读和理解它是如何工作的，让他们只是玩玩源代码。

只有这样，我才会给他们布置“任务”去完成。

现在，如果他们有一个特别的原因想要学习如何编程，那么从他们想要完成的事情开始肯定是一个好主意。例如，如果他们想精通blender这样的应用程序，从Alice开始肯定是个好主意。

我绝对推荐使用具有垃圾收集功能的语言，如D、Perl或一些解释性语言，如javascript。在Perl 6接近完成之前远离Perl可能是一个好主意，因为它解决了阅读和理解Perl的一些困难。

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。

My favourite "start learning to code" project is the Game Snakes or Tron because it allows you to start slow (variables to store the current "worm position", arrays to store the worm positions if the worm is longer than one "piece", loops to make the worm move, if/switch to allow the user to change the worm's direction, ...). It also allows to include more and more stuff into the project in the long run, e.g. object oriented programming (one worm is one object with the chance to have two worms at the same time) with inheritance (go from "Snakes" to "Tron" or the other way around, where the worm slightly changes behavior).

我建议您从微软的XNA开始。根据我的经验，如果你能在屏幕上看到一些东西，开始编程就会有趣得多，而XNA使得在屏幕上移动一些东西变得非常容易。做一些小的改变并获得另一种看法是很容易的，例如通过改变颜色，这样他就可以看到他的行动有效果->成功的印象。成功是有趣的，这是不断学习的巨大动力。

一行一行地复制一些简单的代码，让他们一边读一边理解。他们很快就会解决的。我开始用Acorn杂志上的代码片段在Acorn Electron上编程。在我6岁的时候，我对编程一无所知，我习惯抄写文本，但渐渐地我学会了不同单词的意思。