Ask HN: Good book to start programming for 15 yo?

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I'm looking for good book for my cousin (15 yo) to infect him with programming. What would you recommend?

Why book? I don't know about you or your cousin, but learning from a book is so slow and dry. Why not a video series or online tutorial? Hell, maybe teach him the basics and build a small project with him.

Codecademy is a great way to learn a bit of syntax and then build something. 'How to make a website' is a good intro course for getting into web dev.

There's also a lot of good python basic videos on YouTube, then he could dive into ML/AI with:

Machine Learning Recipes from Josh Gordon at Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKxRvEZd3Mw

Siraj Raval's channel on ML/AI/Programming https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWN3xxRkmTPmbKwht9FuE5A/vid...

All that said, if you reallllly want a book: "Learn Python the hard way" by Zed Shaw https://learnpythonthehardway.org/

Thank you! I'm looking for materials in Polish so I was thinking that it will be the best to look for some book and its Polish translation. I haven't seen English videos translated into Polish.

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