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Re:Composing Programs – An introduction to programming in th... by anarchyrucks on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @07:38AM (#17652326)
Why is JavaScript an absolute requirement? I guess he can learn python as his first programming language which I personally think will be easier to setup/run in the machine instead of installing node.
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Re:Composing Programs – An introduction to programming in th... by reacweb on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @08:23AM (#17652560)
Yes. And for beginners, https://py3.codeskulptor.org/ is fantastic.
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Re:Composing Programs – An introduction to programming in th... by bogomipz on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @10:31AM (#17653436)
And also Python Tutor:

http://pythontutor.com/

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Re:Composing Programs – An introduction to programming in th... by QML on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @08:57PM (#17658758)
A great complement to that would also be to use Jupyter, whose notebooks are similarly interactive and not dead like typing into a blank terminal or IDE.
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