如果你的兄弟有iTunes，他可以下载新南威尔士大学理查德·巴克兰教授的计算机科学入门课程的视频。他是一个有吸引力的讲师，涵盖了计算和C语言的基础知识。如果不出意外的话，让你的兄弟把视频作为背景播放，一些概念可能会通过潜移默化的作用慢慢地吸收进去。：）

COMP1917高等计算- 2008年会议1 http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/unsw.edu.au.1504975442.01504975444

如果链接不起作用，这里有一个路径:

Home -> iTunes U ->工程-> COMP1917高级计算- 2008会话1

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。

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。

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.

首先问他这个问题:“你想用你的电脑做什么事情?”

然后选择一组符合他的答案的活动，并选择一种允许这些事情完成的语言。如果它是一个简单的(或可简化的)脚本环境(例如Applescript, Ruby，任何shell (Ksh, Bash，甚至.bat文件)，那就更好了。

原因如下:

如果他对结果感兴趣，他可能会比你让他数斐波那契兔子更有动力。 如果他得到了他喜欢的结果，他可能会想出你创造的活动的变化。 如果你在教他，他(目前)还没有追求一份正经的职业;以后总是有时间切换到“行业实力”语言的。

我认为Python是一种非常好的开始语言::-)

我建议你试试http://www.pythonchallenge.com/

它就像一个小冒险，每个解决方案都将你链接到一个新的好问题。

解决问题后，你可以进入一个不错的论坛，讨论你的代码，并看到其他人创建了什么。