Post #45435
2025-12-09 14:26 UTC
Absolutely do not use Python. It’s a nightmare to install on random computers and the majority of your time spent will be trying to get it working on everyone’s computer (that was my job at one point). As far as I remember, there isn’t a “good” C compiler that comes on windows and the one on Mac is missing some stuff.
I’d go with Ruby, it’s dead simple to install on every OS, easy to teach and learn, and doesn’t work differently across OSes. There’s an installer for it for windows and it comes installed by default on Mac (or it did? Maybe they stopped that).
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@richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 2025-12-09 15:45
The installation part is now improved if you previously install uv.
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@bob_lemon@feddit.org 2025-12-09 16:44
What? Linux: Install with whatever package manager you use Windows: download installer, run installer Mac: Idk, same as Windows I’d guess Then type python or python3 into your command line to check of it works. Run scripts from command line, too (to prevent stuff like file associations or shebangs) Any version >=3.10 is fine, the differences don’t matter for a basic course. Venv or even pip is not needed either (again, basic course).