From: Pawel Szymczykowski <makenai@...>
Date: 2005-10-11T17:26:01+09:00
Subject: Re: my mother wants to code?

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What about this book in progress by Chris Pine?:
http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/

It's been mentioned on this list before (recently) as an introduction for
the beginning programmers - look for the subject 'Looking for book
reviewers' in the archives for more detailed info.

-Pawel

On 10/11/05, Francois Paul <francois@bagasie.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>

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