Honestly, for me, if they're interested in the web or hobby dev, I think JS is the better choice, even download aside. The path from HTML to JS to JQuery and C

Honestly, for me, if they're interested in the web or hobby dev, I think JS is the better choice, even download aside. The path from HTML to JS to JQuery and CSS in there somewhere seems like a more useful path for most people nowadays. Once they get that, Ruby/Python will come relatively easy.