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It might be a bit unconventional, but if you're doing it to teach him to provide for himself why not actually offer him some money? Chances are he's already qu
by mtrimpe 13y ago
It might be a bit unconventional, but if you're doing it to teach him to provide for himself why not actually offer him some money?
Chances are he's already quite capable of programming, but has just never seen any real reason for picking it up.
I'd say find a sum of money that would sort of impress him, then find a nice task he probably would be able to do (perhaps with your guidance) that would be worth that much money (to someone in general,) and ask him to do that for you.
It might not work, but when trying to get someone to a final destination I usually try to give someone as realistic an taste of the first step along the way and see if they're interested in taking more afterwards.
- mtrimpe 13y agoI'd like to add one more thing, in that if you're really trying to help, consider expose him to some NLP. NLP got a bad reputation from the people in the self-help industry that latched on to it, but at its core it's about modelling thought processes (N) and language (L) to try to identify a sequence of repeatable steps that will consistently achieve a desired result (P). In essence it's a pretty good attempt at creating a functioning, logical, model of everything an Aspie doesn't intuitively understand.