Helping a friend of a friend get into C# - good "getting started" resource?

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As a quick update, I heard the guy spent a couple of days getting set up with Visual Studio free version and some online tutorials with some friends. No idea if it will come to anything but I was told he "seemed more enthusiastic than they'd ever seen" so just having the tools to try and take things into his own hands seems to have been very beneficial.

I'm sure he'd be happy just getting a job at any level in IT, not a £50k/500pd role, so fingers crossed. Thanks for all your advice.