[tboyd47]

> Want to learn to code? There is no better time to start than right now... (snip) Don’t let these illustrations scare you.

(emphasis not mine)

Great sign for the industry when newbie material starts out like this. \s

Nowadays I actively scare people away who ask me about getting into web dev. "Well, first you'll need to learn about 12 different technologies... you'll get your first job based on 6 of those and throw away the other 6, can't say which... then you'll replace those 6 with 6 more that do pretty much the same thing... then a year later when the industry changes you'll throw away 4 of those and learn 4 more which do, like I said, pretty much the same thing..." By this time the person is already changing the subject.

[v33ra]

And it is also difficult to get started with a new project. You need to setup multitude of tools just to see a production worthy `Hello World` app.

[tboyd47]

I'm designing an introduction to programming class right now and I plan to just teach basic ECMAScript5 in a Node library, while keeping all the webdev stuff like HTTP, HTML, CSS, etc. hidden totally from the student. If things were different, I would love to incorporate pragmatic UI development in a beginner-friendly way, to expose people to the positive feedback loop that comes with iterating on highly visual code, but there just doesn't seem to be a way to do that in 2018.