Ask HN: Best way to teach programming to a person with Asperger+ADD?
I have a family member who's diagnosed with a mild case of Asperger syndrome combined with Attention deficit disorder (ADD). He is in his late 20ies and have been obsessive about computers his whole life. But for some reason he have never taken on programming.
I would love to teach him the programming craft as I think he'll be very good at it and that this in turn will help him secure a steady job (something that isn't easy with the combination of Asperger and ADD).
I have a small project (a web-app) in mind that I think we could work towards - hopefully something that might even bring in some cash for him if it becomes popular.
I'm a seasoned programmer my self with 15+ years of experience. In the last 8 years I've been programming Ruby and lately Node.js, so I was thinking of teaching him one of these languages. But I'm not sure and was wondering if any of you guys had any suggestions of which language to use and which approach I should use for teaching.
In the end I'm simply looking for advise on how to approach this. Looking forward to your thoughts!
I would love to teach him the programming craft as I think he'll be very good at it and that this in turn will help him secure a steady job (something that isn't easy with the combination of Asperger and ADD).
I have a small project (a web-app) in mind that I think we could work towards - hopefully something that might even bring in some cash for him if it becomes popular.
I'm a seasoned programmer my self with 15+ years of experience. In the last 8 years I've been programming Ruby and lately Node.js, so I was thinking of teaching him one of these languages. But I'm not sure and was wondering if any of you guys had any suggestions of which language to use and which approach I should use for teaching.
In the end I'm simply looking for advise on how to approach this. Looking forward to your thoughts!