I would get him started on C. Mac programming uses ObjC and Cocoa (amongst other things) which are all pretty much supersets of C. There is some use in learning C++ but really you can't get too much simpler than C (which means something anyway) if you want to get into Mac Programming.
** I say this on a limited knowledge. I have only just got into Mac/iPhone programming in the last few months or so, so I may very well be wrong.
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