[jmabille]

I agree that the compilation process is part of the C++, however (and that's from my teacher's experience), teaching it to beginners as a first lesson may be complicated (and you have to teach it early so they can build their first program). Besides this is not rewarding when your students are familiar with other languages like python where they can write some code and have immediate results without any additional step.

So having a good interactive environment is really useful for the first lessons, then you can teach the compilation chaintool and switch to a real environment.