Because for her, programming will be a means to an end, and that end is data analysis and statistics, I recommend that she learn Python and its scientific and analytical libraries like numpy and scipy.
Python is relatively easy to learn, it's free, and it can produce useful results with little effort.
Python is relatively easy to learn, it's free, and it can produce useful results with little effort.
Python: http://www.python.org/
Scipy: http://scipy.org/
Examples of scipy's output: https://www.google.com/search?q=scipy&hl=en&tbo=d...