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.

不管他们写什么，让他们在第一次运行时在调试器中逐行逐行地检查。让他们自己看看电脑在做什么。这消除了许多神秘感，减少了恐惧(“哦，每一行真的都那么简单!”)，并帮助他们学习调试技能，并认识到为什么常见错误是常见的(以及为什么它们是错误)。

这可能看起来很奇怪，但我在以前的工作中通过自动化任务和数据分析开始编写代码。这是通过记录和研究Excel宏生成的代码来完成的。当然，这种方法假设您可以通过VB学习。

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

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。