Debuggers aren't necessary to get someone excited about programming. This tool definitely has its place. My niece recently asked me how to learn to program. S

Debuggers aren't necessary to get someone excited about programming. This tool definitely has its place. My niece recently asked me how to learn to program. Since she not extremely tech literate, I gave her a pointer to Zed Shaw's book. We had two sessions together to get her up to speed. These included going through the pre-reqs of learning to to use the command line, creating and editing .py files, the differences between the interactive interpretor and executing scripts, how to read a traceback. She stuck with it, but it took away from some of her interest. If I had to start again, I would definitely point her to this app.