[ekidd]

Mentoring other programmers can be a lot of fun.

I knew a student once who was messing around with Java, and I pointed him at Lisp and some code for a metacircular evaluator. He figured it out in no time flat. It's fun to blow people's minds, and to watch them learn.

But as the article says, you can't help people who aren't willing to roll up their sleeves and go to work.