And of course, I'll teach her the little I know.
When she told me: "I want to learn programming", it was a total surprise. She studies fashion design at the
University of Buenos Aires (UBA)!
The first thing I thought was what language I would choose, but few seconds later I tell her : "We are going to learn
Ruby. Now, let me tell you something: I don´t know Ruby. She either of course. We´re going to learn Ruby both of us :).
OK, why Ruby? Because the syntax it´s clear, it doesn´t have a lot of symbols like C/C#, it's elegant (not like VB) and it's full OO, and the most important thing: looks fun.
In my case, no language learning can be done without a book, so we get a copy of
Learn to Program and she started playing with it, code the first samples and like it a lot, and actually gets it :). The books it´s very funny and she likes the way Chris explain, I think it was a great choice, I mean, the language and the book.