My "gateway drug" for getting into programming was web design. I could make this pretty, artsy website where I could share my photos, drawings, etc. I also was

My "gateway drug" for getting into programming was web design. I could make this pretty, artsy website where I could share my photos, drawings, etc. I also was big into fan fiction when I started using the internet in my youth, so it was fun for me to make a website for housing my fan fiction and that of others. The fanfic website eventually got unwieldy to style each story's page separately, so my dad pointed me at PHP: I could use `include` tags to include the same header and footer on every page. Voila, I was programming! Then came MySQL so I could offer filtering options for pairing, rating, characters involved, etc. So if your friend's daughter is into creative stuff outside of technology, you might have traction encouraging her to combine the two.