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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by Bjartr on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @09:32PM (#20110776)
Learning how to install and configure development environments is an important skill in general, but I'm not convinced having those skills as a prerequisite for exploring programming as a newbie is at all valuable.
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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by benatkin on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @09:56PM (#20110884)
It is valuable if they start out with python 3 instead of python 2.
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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by Bjartr on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:32AM (#20114887)
I'd say that depends on what kind of newbie we're talking about.
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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by drak0n1c on Thursday June 06, 2019 @01:08AM (#20111760)
On macOS the best config-free entry to programming is Swift and Swift Playgrounds. Everything else can have config and shell hell for further more advanced learning purposes.
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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by saagarjha on Thursday June 06, 2019 @04:50AM (#20112726)
You still have to download Xcode, of course.
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