> When it comes to my docs, my current stance is that it's worse to create something that's too open-ended than too closed I agree with you as my own approach

> When it comes to my docs, my current stance is that it's worse to create something that's too open-ended than too closed I agree with you as my own approach is also more towards the step-by-step. And you are right that I also have the luxury of my presence being helpful for when the students get stuck, although I try to make my tutorials so that they do not need much of my help. Also, some students cannot go to my classes as they work, and this approach allows them to do the lab assignments at home without much help from me. Regarding the broken feedback loop, one possible alternative for web-based instruction is something that requires the user to insert solutions somewhere and have feedback on it. There's a SaaS that allows you to do programming assignments and you must submit it and run it in their servers. Perhaps you could explore something like that, although with JS you could run it in the browser directly?