> you need to plug the device into its bigger brother This exactly is the challenge. If your first computer is a mobile device, you would not have that “bigger

> you need to plug the device into its bigger brother This exactly is the challenge. If your first computer is a mobile device, you would not have that “bigger brother” available. iOS does have Swift Playgrounds [1] and Android has the excellent Termux [2] but access to the built-in JavaScript engine would open a whole new set of possibilities. [1]: https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/ https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/ [2]: https://termux.com/ https://termux.com/ I was introduced to programming on a dinky little graphing calculator. My hope is that other “first computers” could offer similar opportunities for tinkering.