I would approach this as a Venn Diagram. One side is computer programming, the other side is your wife's intrinsic interests. I will assume that your wife enjoy

I would approach this as a Venn Diagram. One side is computer programming, the other side is your wife's intrinsic interests. I will assume that your wife enjoys photography. Have her program a solution that allows her to solve her own problem. For example, have her write a server script when a SMS image message is sent via Twilo, it will take that image and display it on your Raspberry Pi digital photo frame on your living room wall. Little projects like that make in enormously easy to have momentum when learning for the first time. Unless you're strapped for cash, I would avoid learning "for the market" at first. Since if you put React/Angular in front of my face when I first started programming. I would say "What's the point?". I didn't understand the problem they were solving,until I had a problem that they solved.