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.

免费电子书《用Python发明你自己的游戏》是一个很好的教育年轻人的资源:

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我建议首先教授几乎所有语言都使用的基本知识，但不需要语言。概述所有的基本概念If-Else If-Else，循环，类，变量类型，结构等。这是大多数语言的基础。然后转向真正理解布尔、比较和复杂的and或语句，以了解更复杂语句的结果。

通过这样做，他将理解编程的概念，并更容易地进入语言，从那里它只是学习语言的复杂细节，它的功能和语法。

我建议从C/ c++开始。我发现它是几乎所有其他语言的良好基础。此外，不同版本的BASIC语言最多也会很不可靠，而且与实际的编程没有真正的关联。

这可能听起来很傻，但你为什么要教你的兄弟编程呢?

最好的学习环境通常包括一个初学者可以达到的目标(一个示例程序)，充足的资源(谷歌/教程/书籍)，以及在需要时可以提供指导的知识渊博的建议来源。

你当然可以为前两项提供建议，但最后一项才是你的主要角色。

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。