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Discussion on: My Mom wants to learn programming, where would she even begin?

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Shannon Crabill

When I was first learning to code, I started with Codeschool (now Pluralsight) and Codecademy. Codeacademy is free to get started, so it's a great way to start learning the basics, before committing to a course or bootcamp.

Traversy media also has good, free content on Youtube.

This may sound silly, but the Hello, Ruby children's book was really good at breaking down the base concepts of programming. I had no shame in reading it during my lunch break.

Once she starts, have a conversation with her on how it's going, what formats she likes and doesn't like and go from there.

It's cool that she wants to learn to program.