The best thing you can do for her is help her find her own motivation. Tech is a remarkably open field, and you can learn basically everything you need on your

The best thing you can do for her is help her find her own motivation. Tech is a remarkably open field, and you can learn basically everything you need on your own---if you're motivated. It doesn't really matter where you start or what technologies you learn, since nearly everything has applicability to everything else, so the second technology is much easier to learn than the first (and the third is easier than the second, and so on). Once you get started you can iterate until you find the niche which is the most interesting/comfortable for you. On the other hand, I've had friends and family who simply never started. They didn't have that spark, so they didn't take the first step. Or they did and it was hard and they didn't come back. They didn't have the motivation to get over that first hump to see what was on the other side. It didn't matter how many suggestions I made, or how much advice I gave them, it just wasn't enough to compensate for a lack of desire to go further. For me, that motivating factor was Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham, a sort of eclectic book that covers topics as far and wide as why nerds are unpopular in school to some of the fundamental aspects of programming languages. I don't honestly know if this is an approach that would work for anyone else, but I mention it because it's the sort of thing that might spark an interest that would be self-sustaining (or at least it was for me).