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Re:Ask HN: Teaching Code to Someone That Asked Me for a Job by in9 on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:14AM (#14604484)
In my mind, the JS stack is not the most useful for a non programmer, and I'd go with python.

It makes easy to have decent scripts/programs for office work (pandas + directory handling) imo

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Re:Ask HN: Teaching Code to Someone That Asked Me for a Job by gedrap on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:29AM (#14604615)
This book has similar ideas about basic practical applications of python https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
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Re:Ask HN: Teaching Code to Someone That Asked Me for a Job by tbirrell on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:46AM (#14604785)
True. Consider those as placeholder terms for whatever stack OP is going to teach.
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