I am with FroshKiller's comment, who said to solve one of her own problems. My girlfriend had little interest in programming, but asked me one day if there was

I am with FroshKiller's comment, who said to solve one of her own problems. My girlfriend had little interest in programming, but asked me one day if there was a way to track a price on a shopping website and get notified if it changes. I offered to help her make this, and she didn't believe she'd be anyway near capable of implementing something like that. Took an evening, she wrote it in Python, and I had her look everything up (StackOverflow and other places), and just helped in explaining the rough concepts involved (here's what a variable is, then you need to read a website's entire content into a variable, see what that website actually looks like in code, spot the words..., here's how you can cut and slice text, and find word positions, etc.) — I then wrote her a tiny python library that only has one function, like a "send_email(to, subject, message)" and takes care of using my smtp setup. She was excited (and exhausted), but she was REALLY excited when she received an e-mail about a week later about a price-drop. Stuff like that is gold, it takes time to spot those opportunities and find something that matches her interests, but working on things that she actually needs will make things incredibly easier. Another issue is that most people don't know what they can actually 'do' with programs. A friend of mine lost his job and started studying programming, and when I asked him what projects he had in mind, he had no idea what's even in the realm of things possible. I helped him make a temperature reader with the Raspberry Pi, and a website. And he loved it. But he completely freaked out when I showed him that same website can be opened on his phone and stored as an "app-like" bookmark on his home screen. He showed all his friends, and I'm sure he didn't sleep much that night wanting to improve the website to make it even cooler. The hardest part about programming isn't the language, it's learning all the technologies and concepts involved in how it all ties together, how to break any given project into its core components that need to be implemented, and what tool is right for the job.