Programming as a career change?
Her current field is social science, and has a masters degree in politcal science, she's worked at NGOs and in acedemia and has recently moved into a marketing/communications company where she isn't overly happy.
She asked me for advice on how to retrain as a programmer, she likes the idea of one day being a "digital nomad" (as she is in her early 30s and has no real ties to the place where she lives).
As she speaks multiple languages and has a good eye for design I think she'd be good as a technical person who can interact with customers and use her social science background to her advantage.
She is interested in web-development (but has no experience at all) so I suggested that she should first participate in some sort of self-study UNIX course, and then move on to a scripting language of some sort.
Does anyone else have any good advice that may help her?