I don't think you can assume that anyone who's never coded can build even junk good enough to attract a programming co-founder in a few weeks of reading their first programming book. Some can, but surely not all.
My suggestion would be to build a clickable wireframe/mockup using Balsamiq, Flash Catalyst or whatever. That is something a non-technical guy can feasibly accomplish, and it will distill their ideas down quickly and it will be instantly shareable online with potential partners.
A detailed mockup would probably a much better use of his time than possibly making something that would take a technical co-founder a few hours which for him would take weeks.
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I don't think you can assume that anyone who's never coded can build even junk good enough to attract a programming co-founder in a few weeks of reading their first programming book. Some can, but surely not all.
My suggestion would be to build a clickable wireframe/mockup using Balsamiq, Flash Catalyst or whatever. That is something a non-technical guy can feasibly accomplish, and it will distill their ideas down quickly and it will be instantly shareable online with potential partners.
A detailed mockup would probably a much better use of his time than possibly making something that would take a technical co-founder a few hours which for him would take weeks.