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by cafard 1496 days ago
Python seems to me an excellent choice. It has good installers for Windows, it has a REPL, IDLE isn't a bad interface. The documentation is excellent. To be sure, it takes a bit of doing to keep Windows 10 from interpreting "python" as "go to the Windows store and offer them a version to download." But that you have to do just once.

If you are helping, you could get her set up, and set up also PIP. A simple web scraping project could help her get started.