You can teach beginner programming with a subset of what python offers. Same with Ruby. Printing to console, assigning to and mutating variables, looping, condi

You can teach beginner programming with a subset of what python offers. Same with Ruby. Printing to console, assigning to and mutating variables, looping, conditional, and basic arithmetic require few keywords and very few extra symbols. Those two languages make easy things simple. Basic does too, but with a not more noise ($). You also don't need top install any language these days if you just want to learn. There are web based environments like repl.it where you can learn and practice basics.