I would teach kids how to build MVC web apps and set up a cheap server so that apps could be "shown" to anyone on any device. That's a pretty big hurdle for a

I would teach kids how to build MVC web apps and set up a cheap server so that apps could be "shown" to anyone on any device. That's a pretty big hurdle for a newbie to get over before "Hello World". JS in the browser has the massive advantage of being pre-installed and requiring no special tools, with an immediate edit-run feedback loop. Wrestling with a server and code deployment etc is a problem they can learn to solve once they've been bitten by the programming bug.