让它变得有趣就好!

令人惊讶的是，如果您尝试Kojo, Scala可能是最简单的

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。

这可能听起来很傻，但你为什么要教你的兄弟编程呢?

最好的学习环境通常包括一个初学者可以达到的目标(一个示例程序)，充足的资源(谷歌/教程/书籍)，以及在需要时可以提供指导的知识渊博的建议来源。

你当然可以为前两项提供建议，但最后一项才是你的主要角色。

对我来说，在IDE中探索和实验帮助我学习了Java和Visual Basic，但我学习编程的基础是艰苦的:Perl 5。那时候还没有一个免费的IDE，所以这意味着在记事本中输入代码，保存它，然后运行perl解释器。

我想说ide使学习编程基础更容易。先试试控制结构和变量。用Java说:

int a = 5;

for (int i = 0; i < a; i++) {
     System.out.println("i is now " + i);
}

基本上，简单地学习控制结构和变量就可以让初学者开始编写有趣的东西。

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.

作为一个非程序员，我发现Pragmatic Programmers的《如何编程》这本书从基本的角度来说非常有帮助。对于初学者来说，这本书平易近人，易于阅读。它不会让你从初学者变成专家，但它会让你在选择一门语言并拿起你的第一本“学习用(语言)编程”书时做好准备。