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> "Get help setting up your development and production environments. In English, this means set up where you write your code and where you see the results of it. Setting this up is the biggest pain for us non-technical people. In fact, I think that it is the single most difficult thing in learning to code."

As a lifelong hacker, this is something its easy to lose sight of until you try to help someone else get started.

Last time I needed to help a newbie get running, we tried https://www.nitrous.io/ and it was helpful. It defers dealing with all the environment / sysadmin stuff until later, so the learner can get positive feedback sooner.