I'm a pythonista myself. The instructions to someone wanting to do Python are: - find out what platform they are using (Unix, Windows, Mac, iDevice, Android e

I'm a pythonista myself. The instructions to someone wanting to do Python are: - find out what platform they are using (Unix, Windows, Mac, iDevice, Android etc) - Ensure Python gets installed or is accessible (add in version 2 versus 3, 32 bit versus 64 bit) - Work out what the text editor or "IDE" will be - Enter the code (no gotos in Python) - Run the code and view the output While these hoops are nothing for you or me, they are significant for others. Note how people report A/B testing showing that extra steps towards various goals results in big dropoffs. Incidentally this is what repl.it does with QBasic: > 10 print "hello" Parse failed: Syntax error at 1:10: Token("hello") > help => 0