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I don't see how this is an issue.

Day 1: Learn how to setup the language on your computer.

A lot of books, like Learn Python the Hard Way, make this the first step.




I think I slightly misstated my point. The problem isn't really about lack of programming tools, but lack of programming as a concept.

You are given a black box which does some stuff, but you have no idea how it does this stuff or how to make it do something else. You don't even know that it would be relatively easy with a decent IDE.




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