As someone who first leant to program in Z80 asm, I would say just let them dig into some 'real' code, initially ignoring most (all) of the infrastructure. Just

As someone who first leant to program in Z80 asm, I would say just let them dig into some 'real' code, initially ignoring most (all) of the infrastructure. Just get a text editor, and a repl open, and quickly iterate real world code (actual problems). They should very quickly get a feel for the language, and then you can add infrastructural like git, TDD, package management.