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。

你可以试试爱丽丝。这是一个为编程入门课程设计的3D程序。

对于新程序员来说，最大的两个障碍通常是:

语法错误 动机(写一些有意义和有趣的东西而不是做作的)

Alice使用拖放界面来构造程序，避免了语法错误的可能性。Alice允许你构建3D世界，让你的代码控制(简单的)3D角色和动画，这通常比实现链表有趣得多。

有经验的程序员可能会把Alice当作玩具，嘲笑拖放代码行，但研究表明这种方法是有效的。

免责声明:我为Alice工作过。

一个很好的python课程是麻省理工学院的A Gentle Introduction to Programming Using python。网上都是免费的，你不必是麻省理工的超级学生也能理解它。

编辑[Justin Standard] 本课程使用这本免费的在线书籍:如何像计算机科学家一样思考 我确实发现它很有用。

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.

关键的是，这个人需要有一些他们想要解决的问题。如果你没有一个你想要编写的程序(并且是一些合理且定义明确的东西，而不是“我想要编写下一个Quake!”)，那么你就无法学习编程，因为你没有任何激励你的东西。我的意思是，你可以读一本书，粗略地了解一种语言的语法和语义，但除非你有一个你想要编写的程序，否则你永远不会迎难而上。

如果这种推动力存在，那么其他一切都只是次要细节。

非常好的斯坦福大学的视频介绍课程(不需要先验知识):

程序设计方法学

将教你每个程序员都应该知道的好“方法”和一些Java编程。