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.

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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。

我浏览了一下评论，似乎没有人提到www.CodeBetter.com上的编程基础。虽然它需要一些基础知识，但它肯定是学习过程中的下一步。

There have already been a bunch of great answers, but for an absolute beginner, I would wholeheartedly recommend Hackety Hack. It was created by the unreasonably prolific why_the_lucky_stiff specifically to provide a BASIC/LOGO/Pascal-like environment for new programmers to experiment in. It's essentially a slick Ruby IDE with some great libraries (flash video, IM, web server) and interactive lessons. It makes a good pitch for programming, as it chose lessons that do fun, useful things. "Hello, world" may not impress right off the bat, but creating a custom IM client in 20 minutes can inspire someone to keep learning. Have fun!

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。