Every time I do this, I wonder how any beginner ever gets their environment set up. Because as soon as something goes wrong (which happens more often than not),

Every time I do this, I wonder how any beginner ever gets their environment set up. Because as soon as something goes wrong (which happens more often than not), I'm drawing on years of experience that the beginner won't have. My first was C++ on Windows 95 and luckily we had internet at the time - it still took me multiple days before I got Hello World working. I think browser-based language introductions are great. They remove a huge obstacle and get you into the language right away.