I taught a kid to cast a baitcaster in about 30 minutes, he was about 10. Started him off with the magnetic brakes on his baitcaster turned all the way up. Side arm cast and made sure the lure was heavy enough, side arm cast. Overheard is a different story. If she wants to learn a baitcaster for the experience start on centrifugal brakes, if she just wants to use a baitcaster because she thinks it will help her fishing get a Scorpion DC. That reel is impossible to backlash.