我推荐Think Python。

有一本维基百科非常适合学习python。

我不知道其他语言的维基百科是怎样的，但我个人是从2007年2月的维基百科上学习python的

Ps -如果你不熟悉维基书，它基本上是维基百科版本的书籍创作。这有点难以描述，但如果你看了几本书你就会明白它是如何工作的

我认为，因为你想学习编程而学习编程，永远比不上因为你想做某事而学习编程。如果你能找到一些你弟弟感兴趣的东西，因为他想让它起作用，你可以把谷歌留给他，他会做的。他会让你在他身边检查他是否走对了路。

I think one of the biggest problems with teaching programming in the abstract is that it's not got a real-world context that the learner can get emotionally invested in. Programming is hard, and there has to be some real payoff to make it worth the effort of doing it. In my case, I'd done computer science at uni, learned Pascal and COBOL there, and learned BASIC at home before that, but I never really got anywhere with it until I became a self-employed web designer back in the 90s and my clients needed functionality on their web sites, and were willing to pay about 10x more for functionality than for design. Putting food on the table is a hell of a motivator!

所以我学习了Perl，然后是ASP/VBScript，然后是JavaScript，然后是Flash/ActionScript，然后是PHP——所有这些都是为了让我想要的东西发生。

Robert Read写了一个很有用的指南，如何成为一个程序员，它涵盖了广泛的编程问题，初学者会发现很有帮助。

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.

如果他感兴趣，那些小细节不就是好地方吗?使用python时，您已经切断了GUI，这样就不会有困惑了。为什么不选择一个项目，一款游戏或其他东西，然后执行它呢?经典的高低数字猜谜游戏可以简单地从命令行中用20-30行代码(当然取决于语言)实现，并为您提供变量、条件、循环和用户输入。