My brother wants to learn programming. I am mulling this over, but I think I will recommend python and django. He can learn to old school web apps, focused on

My brother wants to learn programming. I am mulling this over, but I think I will recommend python and django. He can learn to old school web apps, focused on serving http from the server. Then he can move into more interactive stuff with javascript. If there was a library/framework similar in scope to Django/Rails with a lot of documentation I would recommend that one. Even though Javascript seems like a good language that you can achieve a lot of with, lack of one big framework makes it hard for new programmers to learn the ropes. I am curious about opinions of others. My brother did program a bit in python, creating a text game that gave him a lot of interest in programming, but other than that has very limited knowledge.