> Failing that, he will probably have to bootstrap from Windows batch files and x86 machine code into a programming environment. I will ignore that possibility,

> Failing that, he will probably have to bootstrap from Windows batch files and x86 machine code into a programming environment. I will ignore that possibility, since AFAIK nobody has tried to tutorialize such a task. Are VBScript and JScript still available on modern Windows? Though if they're older computers, these are probably available (or maybe even QBasic, if they're old enough).