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Comment on Ask HN: Would you introduce someone to programing

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Find a problem that he is interested in fixing.

Use programming adjacent tools that he is familiar with or wants to play with. Excel, html, no code solutions. This should be a low time investment but will either get him hooked or deter him.

Read some core books like "The Pragmatic Programmer" about general skills.

Pick up a friendly book like https://www.railstutorial.org/ for web development. I'm sure there are other similar books for other types of development.

Also by the creator of the railtutorial the learnenough.com series

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