In reality, web development is quite a hostile environment, in my opinion. Too many different technologies. Better to keep him 'sandboxed' in a single environme

In reality, web development is quite a hostile environment, in my opinion. Too many different technologies. Better to keep him 'sandboxed' in a single environment, say, Ruby. The great thing about web development of course, is that it's easy to see what you can achieve. Hacking Ruby command line scripts not so much. When I started back in the 90'es it was Visual Basic 6. As horrible a language it was, the instant gratification of pointing a button to a certain method etc. was invaluable, in my opinion. Edit: O.K., I don't have any current ideas, sorry :)