Yeah I'm kind of steering away from giving him all of the tools to learn web development in addition to Photoshop as I think it might just become discouraging f

Yeah I'm kind of steering away from giving him all of the tools to learn web development in addition to Photoshop as I think it might just become discouraging for him at first. I'm curious about your JQuery recommendation: why not just the core Javascript language first? Quicker results? I ask because I only have hacker level knowledge of both Javascript & JQuery and am looking to improve my skills but was unsure whether to attack the main language or just focus on JQuery itself...