Reddit mentions of Learn Ruby the Hard Way: A Simple and Idiomatic Introduction to the Imaginative World Of Computational Thinking with Code (3rd Edition) (Zed Shaw's Hard Way Series)

What does she exactly wants to do after graduating any education system?

School is not free, and her time is valuable, so she should decide that first :)

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IT industry has various career options like

• web developer (developing database, server, and web client)
  
• mobile developer (iOS and Android)
  
• game developer
  
• software tester (testing casino games, or writing automated tests for an application)
  
• Network administrator (setting up network equipments for a company or a hospital)
  
• etc...
  
  If she likes to test stuff, and enjoy deductive investigation to find a bug, she would enjoy software testing.
  
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  ps. I am a software developer for 10 years, and I strongly recommend her to learn some coding like Python/JavaScript/Ruby first.
  
  I recruit and interview software developers as part of my job.
  
  I have interviewed numerous NBCC, Oulton, and UNB graduates, and most of them are not employable at all....
  
  Some graduates has great portfolio, and they usually self-taught how to code, but these graduates are very rare....
  
  I also have recruited Waterloo, and McGill students, and my team had to train them from the scratch, and only couple of them still works at the company/industry.
  
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  If she really wants to get into IT industry, she would have to be good at teaching herself.
  
  School doesn't make a student a developer. It puts a student in the right direction to become a developer, and helps them to get a job with a piece of paper.
  
  So, tell her to grab a book or a web tutorial, and read cover-to-cover by herself :)
  
  If she can't teach herself, she would probably not enjoy her career in IT industry since it demands her to study everyday. (What I used 4 years ago is not even usable today)
  
  Here is a great book to learn Ruby:
  
  https://www.amazon.ca/Learn-Ruby-Hard-Way-Computational/dp/032188499X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=ruby+the+hard+way&qid=1572907743&sr=8-1

I second Python as a great beginner language.

Here you go /u/moonknightspidey - http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

You don't have to buy the book, it's available through the web site for free. If you prefer a physical book: https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Python-Hard-Way-Introduction/dp/0321884914

The person I'm replying to also recommended Ruby. Zed Shaw also wrote a ruby book.

Online (free): http://learnrubythehardway.org/book/

Print: https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Ruby-Hard-Way-Computational/dp/032188499X

And if you're feeling crazy then you can learn you a haskell (don't do this).

Bookmark these for when you get into C later:
http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ Same guy who wrote Learn Python the Hard Way. The online (free) copy of Learn C etc is incomplete, but is now available in print in full: https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Hard-Way-Practical-Computational/dp/0321884922

Then there's beej: http://beej.us/guide/

And the obligatory TCP/IP book: https://www.nostarch.com/tcpip.htm

If anyone's wondering about why I just spammed the shit out of Zed Shaw's books, it's because his writing style is very easy to get into and keeps your attention. It's anything but dry, and focuses on making you write code, break it, and figure out why it broke.

There are other good Python books as well, like this one: https://www.nostarch.com/automatestuff

And here's another No Starch book on Ruby (I like No Starch - Absolute OpenBSD is a great reference) - https://www.nostarch.com/ruby