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I have a little cousin brother who really loves learning about computers. According to him, he loves computer classes. I found out in "computer class" all they do is teach the poor kids how to use word and excel and how to save files in windows.

He is a very smart kid, and I tried to ask their parents to let him spend time online so that he could learn more about computers.

The parents are unfortunately scared of the internet, I tried to tell them about parental controls with no success so unfortunately, I don't see him using the internet for the next 4-5 years.

Is there any interactive programming lessons which I could download, put in a drive and give him so he could follow them without having to use the internet.

It honestly breaks my heart to see a very intelligent kid spend all of his free time watching soap operas with his mom.

This has been bothering me a lot for quite some time now, whenever I use open source products I can't help but feel bad for not doing anything to help improve the product I use or any other open-source projects which are alive thanks to people spending their time for free.

I want to contribute in code, but I always feel like I am not good enough, or that it would take a long time before I submit my first piece of code to a project.

How did you get in to contributing to open source? Is it possible to contribute to a project that's been there for a long time? if so, what does it take for someone to contribute in code?