I suppose this is slightly OT, but wrt to the Amish apprenticeship , I have started teaching my 15yo nephew programming and, as of late, I have been thinking ab

I suppose this is slightly OT, but wrt to the Amish apprenticeship , I have started teaching my 15yo nephew programming and, as of late, I have been thinking about ways to get him to do a couple of months of apprenticeship with me. Right now, I can tell he's struggling even with pretty basic notions. I think it is partially due to him not being proficient enough in english (he speaks and writes norwegian, french and spanish fluently tho so I don't blame him), so googling around and finding answers seems hard for him. I dont live in the same country as him so I don't really know where it stops clicking for him (and he doesn't have a lot of 'screen time' to do research because of his parents, which is a good thing I suppose, but not for teaching him programming). Also he's more of an entrepreneur type than a hacker type so his patience gets in the way for him to deep dive: he just wants to see his project happen, he doesn't really care how (I suppose that's normal for a 15yo though). Therefore, getting him to read a book, or doing some structured course is not going to fly (I think). Also I am pretty strict trying to teach him the "'real'" ''"basics"'': in JavaScripts example functions, scoping, events, the DOM, - not just how to glue together stuff. He's the one that asked me to help him out though, and he also said he wanted to really understand it (which is why I am trying to be strict) so there's innate motivation driving him. He asked me how to do a autocomplete (a list that pops up under an input box), so that's what we're building. (Tips are welcome by the way :) To get back on the topic: writing this got me thinking that, maybe in a 100 years from now, the Amish will be the turn-to lisp/fortran/c/cobol? consultants :) EDIT: typos