书籍:面向孩子、父母和祖父母的Java编程(PDF)

我没有使用那本书学习的个人经验，但它看起来很不错，因为它很快就能产生一些可见的东西，而且没有在语法细节上花费太多时间。有人试过用那本书吗?

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!

无论你选择哪种语言和环境，如果学生是出于专业原因或“真正的”编程(不管那是什么)而学习，让他们先在纸上写下他们的初始程序，然后带着它们去运行。返回输出和/或错误结果，并让他们在纸上修复错误。

刚开始，这并不比在屏幕上执行并点击运行更难，但当他们开始发现bug的奇妙世界时，事情会变得容易得多。

1)简短地说:“你好，世界!”-type仍然有一些逻辑和/或计算的程序，对一些可能有bug的程序这样做

如果你想教授编程的基础知识，而不是特定语言，有一个叫Scratch的应用程序是在麻省理工学院创建的。它旨在帮助人们培养编程技能。当用户创建Scratch项目时，他们学会了创建条件、循环等。还有一个scratch项目社区，可以从那里下载项目——这样你就可以探索其他人的程序，看看他们是如何构建的。

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.

实际上，我认为应该选择一种指令更少、更简单的语言。我自己在家学习BASIC语言，杰夫也是。这样，您就不必深入研究更复杂的问题，如面向对象编程，甚至如果您不想深入研究过程的话。一旦他能够处理简单的控制流，就可以转向一些更复杂的东西，但只有简单的功能。

也许从两个数字相加的简单程序开始，然后发展到可能需要一个分支的程序，然后可能读取输入并对其做出响应，然后是某种循环，并开始将它们组合在一起。只要从小事开始，然后慢慢做。不要做任何大的项目，直到他掌握了基本知识(否则它可能太令人生畏，他可能会中途放弃)。一旦他掌握了BASIC或者你选择的任何东西，就转向更复杂的东西。

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