Blimey, what a complex set of things to learn nowadays - writing apps and javascript ! When I was a lad I started with the most powerful computer I could affor

Blimey, what a complex set of things to learn nowadays - writing apps and javascript ! When I was a lad I started with the most powerful computer I could afford - a pencil and paper. Show him this https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/museum/cardiac.html https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/museum/cardiac.html See if it interesting. Then I moved on to the next most powerful computer I could afford - a ZX81 with 1k of RAM connected to a television set! I would type programs in from books and magazines and see if I could get them to work - so I learned to fix programs before I learned to write them. So I still advocate this route. Not writing apps for iPhones or trying to write Xbox games and build websites. Buy the simplest thing I can find - something like an Arduino that does things on a small scale. Learn how computers work, not how to program them.