在浏览了几本免费电子书之后，我发现最适合学习编程的书是O'Reily出版社出版的《Head First Programming》。它使用Python作为语言，并从一开始就为您提供程序。它们都比“Hello World”更有趣。 我花在这本书上的钱是非常值得的，因为它已经发布了一段时间，你可能会在Ebay或亚马逊上找到更便宜的二手书。

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:

http://pythonbook.coffeeghost.net/book1/IYOCGwP_book1.pdf

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.

对我来说，在IDE中探索和实验帮助我学习了Java和Visual Basic，但我学习编程的基础是艰苦的:Perl 5。那时候还没有一个免费的IDE，所以这意味着在记事本中输入代码，保存它，然后运行perl解释器。

我想说ide使学习编程基础更容易。先试试控制结构和变量。用Java说:

int a = 5;

for (int i = 0; i < a; i++) {
     System.out.println("i is now " + i);
}

基本上，简单地学习控制结构和变量就可以让初学者开始编写有趣的东西。

这个线程是非常有用的我作为一个初学者(>100行代码)程序员。

基于我所经历的，一旦我完成了“Hello World”，并移动到变量和“if/else”语句，我得到了太多的语法;不知道该拿他们怎么办。

因此，通过一个有趣的简单项目，我可能会重新燃起我的兴趣。这里有很多项目建议。

我能问个问题吗?

先学习像Autohotkey这样的脚本语言会更好吗?

编辑:[Justin Standard] 我认为学习一些基于宏的东西，比如Autohotkey，只会有最低限度的帮助。试着先学习一门“真正的”编程语言。最简单的入门(根据大多数人的说法)是python和ruby。我更喜欢python，但两者都很简单。 还有一个完整的stackoverflow帖子回答了从哪种语言开始的问题。

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。