From: Francois Paul <francois@...>
Date: 2005-10-11T17:20:00+09:00
Subject: my mother wants to code?

Hi,
my 50 year old mother wants to learn to code.
She has no computer experience, but she is surrounded with programmers 
(three sons and a husband) and she wants to be able to understand what 
we are talking about.
She is also quite tired of being a math teacher and is considdering to 
quit her job in favour of helping with my webdev company (doing some 
mundane inhouse development).

My little brother is busy teaching her Java but I feel Ruby is the 
better (friendlier, more productive) language. However I can't seem to 
find a good introduction to ruby that asumes no previous programming 
experience (there are plenty available for Java).

can anyone point me in the right direction? also if you think it is a 
better idea to start programming in Java rather than Ruby, please let me 
know why.

Regards,

Francois