问问你的兄弟，他是否想为他做一些你认为他会感兴趣的程序或发明一个项目。

他可以知道输出应该是什么，并向他指出与项目相关的材料(在线或印刷)。如果他刚开始接触python或编程，你要有耐心，因为他在理解语法、错误、范围等基础知识的过程中，要准备好让位，让他自己跑，让他自己犯错误，当你开始看到他的头脑中出现了电灯泡。

If he is interested than I wouldn't worry about focusing on games or whatnot. I'd just grab that beginners 'teach yourself x' book you were about to throw and give it him and let him struggle through it. Maybe talk about it after and then do another and another. After then I'd pair program with him so he could learn how shallow and lame those books he read were. Then I'd start having him code something for himself. A website to track softball stats or whatever would engage him. For me it was a database for wine back in the day.

在那之后，我会开始真正的书籍，领域设计等。

一旦他掌握了基本知识，我建议他去河内塔作为一个很好的锻炼。 如果你有木制玩具，我建议你从木质玩具开始;让他试着自己解决这个问题，并系统地描述他的方法。告诉他递归在哪里发挥作用。给他解释一下，棋局的多少取决于棋牌的多少。 然后让他写一个程序，用你选择的语言打印出动作的顺序。

Python is easy for new developers to learn. You don't get tangled up in the specifics of memory management and type definition. Dive Into Python is a good beginners guide to python programming. When my sister wanted to learn programing I pointed her to the "Head Start" line of books which she found very easy to read and understand. I find it's hard to just start teaching someone because you don't have a lexicon to use with them. First have him read a few books or tutorials and ask you for questions. From there you can assign projects and grade them. I find it hard to teach programming because I learned it over nearly 15 years of tinkering around.

用现实世界的类比和想象的人物来教他们编程。比如当我教人们变量和控制语句的时候。

通常我从计算器的例子开始。我说，想象你有一个盒子，每个变量都有10个卡板，上面印着数字0 - 9。假设这个盒子一次可以装一个纸板，用类似的方法解释编程元素是如何工作的

并强调每个操作符是如何工作的。像简单的'='操作符一样，总是先将右边的值计算为一个值。然后将该值放入名为num_1(变量名)的框中

这是非常非常有效的，因为他们能够非常快速地想象流动。

我同意Leac的观点。有时候无聊的时候我会玩Scratch。这是一种非常有趣的查看代码的可视化方式。

它的工作原理是，他们给你一堆“积木”(这些看起来像乐高积木)，你可以叠起来。通过堆叠这些块，并与画布(游戏邦注:你可以在此放置精灵和图像)进行交互，你便能够创造游戏，电影，幻灯片等等。这真的很有趣。

当它完成时，你可以直接上传到Scratch网站，这是一个类似youtube的Scratch应用程序门户。不仅如此，您还可以从网站上下载任何提交的内容，并从其他Scratch应用程序中学习或扩展。