What if you flipped it around a little? You aren't so much lending him money and teaching him to code as it is hiring him to help you with a side project. If y

What if you flipped it around a little? You aren't so much lending him money and teaching him to code as it is hiring him to help you with a side project. If you judiciously assign him tasks to work on, help him get started but encourage him to use solid Google/Stack Overflow skills to solve his own problems, you may end up truly helping him. The alternative, which scares me a little, is that he will start working on tutorials, get bored, start to doubt himself and then completely disappear from your life because he failed and can't pay you back.