学术地球提供顶尖大学的免费计算机科学课程链接。他们有一个部分是针对初级计算机科学的。初级课程所教授的语言各不相同:

麻省理工学院-计算机科学与编程导论- Python 斯坦福-计算机科学I:编程方法学- Java 哈佛大学-计算机科学概论I - C(主要方向) 还有一些是为了 良好的度量(例如，SQL, PHP, LISP， 汇编程序等) Berkeley -一种LISP语言的方言

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。

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。

我认为Python是个好主意。我会给他一些基本的任务让他自己去做，并告诉他，他遇到的任何死胡同都可以通过谷歌来解决。至少对我来说，自己解决问题总比别人告诉我解决方案更好。

一些可能的项目(排名不分先后):

Coin flip simulator. Let the user input a desired number of trials for the coin flipping. Execute it and display the results along with the percentage for heads or tails. Make a temperature converter with a menu that takes user input to choose which kind of conversion the user wants to do. After choosing the conversion and doing it, it should return to the main menu. Here's an example of an extended converter with the same idea: http://pastebin.org/6541 Make a program that takes a numeric input and displays the letter grade it would translate to. It'll end up evaluating the input against if and elif statements to find where it fits. Make a simple quiz that goes through several multiple choice or fill in the blank questions. At the end it will display how the user did. He can pick any questions he wants. Take an input of some (presumably large) number of pennies and convert it into bigger denominations. For example, 149 pennies = 1 dollar, 1 quarter, 2 dimes, and 4 pennies. Create a simple list manager. Be able to add/delete lists and add/delete entries in those lists. Here's an example of a christmas list manager: http://pastebin.org/6543 Create a program that will build and then test whether entered numbers form a magic square (with a 2D array). Here's some sample code, but it should really print out the square at each step in order to show where the user is in terms of buliding the square: http://pastebin.org/6544

我还建议用xTurtle或其他图形模块做一些事情，把事情混合起来，让他不会感到无聊。当然，这是非常多的实践编程，而不是很多人真正使用python的脚本，但我给出的例子几乎直接取自我通过python学习的时候，它对我来说非常有用。好运！

http://tryruby.hobix.com/">试试Ruby(在你的浏览器)

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!