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These days you can start JavaScript with Node.js and create simple command line applications.

• yeukhon 13y ago
  True, but remember, if you google javascript or look around books in the book store, many are still teaching with web technology :) which is unfortunate (although the intent is great).
• bphogan 13y ago
  I agree with this. I currently teach beginning programming using JavaScript in HTML, and we currently just provide pre-made web pages for the students to write their basic programs in. They come in already knowing basic HTML as they've taken a previous class. But I've been thinking of rewriting the curriculum to use Node.JS for about a year now. The only reason I haven't yet is that the students seem to enjoy doing things in web pages. I think there's something awesome about writing console apps, but I don't know if they really hold the attention that today's students have.
• rtpg 13y ago
  the asynchronous model of node might be a bit hard to grok for beginners though (when I was in high school I tried writing actionscript(which is basically JS with types) without really understanding event-based programming, and it was pretty surreal)