They'll probably just have to be sent as a parcel in stead, using PostNord or one of the International carriers. It already costs about the same to send a parcel (up to 1 kg) as a letter, and service and shipping speed is infinitely better anyway.
OldMrFish
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I remember being taught Model-driven development using Eclipse as part of the software engineering study back in the early 2000's. Even as a student it was painfully obvious that you'd spend an awful lot of time trying to work around annoying limitations in whatever tool was used, rather than just writing the code yourself. The parallel to vibe-coding seems rather obvious.
I can't imagine what they thought they'd get from training on Reddit data...
That C book was still used when I studied software engineering in the 2010s. It was even considered a 'modern' C book because it had been updated to include ANSI C...
If he likes working with physical objects as well (robotics) I can't recommend the Lego mindstorms or education series enough. The standard interface is very similar to Scratch so he'd feel right at home, but they can generally also be programmed with more traditional programming languages if using building blocks becomes too restrictive.
After working on a few different projects, I've always ended up using ORM for normal operations and Stored Procedures for the complex stuff.
If using MS products, the Database project type in Visual Studio even adds some basic static checking to SQL to help you out a little.
Had the pleasure of taking over maintenance of a moderately complex application with a data access layer based entirely on Stored Procedures once - that was fun..