These are all good ideas – thanks. Currently she is into reading and borrows loads of books from the library. A simple program to record title, author, and her comments on the book would be a good start. This could be expanded to use databases for storage etc., and perhaps a simple web interface. I like the idea of introducing milestones and deliverables etc. at an early stage – it’s something that very good programmers often struggle with, probably because it is not learned at the same time as programming.