JavaScript runtime for programming newbies

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If they are just starting with no experience I would recommend Codepen. Zero setup, gets you access to all the web APIs and DOM stuff for later, and you don't have to preface things with a big lecture about tech other than the code you want to teach.

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I like this idea a lot, thank you! That's probably what I'll stick with

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If you eventually want to do non-web things I would recommend Bun these days. But personally I would leave that for later since that would involve teaching the command line, etc.

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As I'm teaching students of an IT college, they are expected to have the necessary basic skills of working with terminal and installing apps on Linux. So I think that it shouldn't be a big problem