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kenjackson on June 3, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Lea...

It's the web browser. Just open up notepad (or whatever the default text editor is) and start coding. Start with HTML and then add some JS.

Timothee on June 4, 2011 | [–]

If you want to go this route I'd go one step further: just use the console in the web browser.

It's pretty much as accessible and everywhere as BASIC was.

peteretep on June 4, 2011 | [–]

A thousand times this. I got really in to programming when I realized I could create ... and then share with anyone to whom I could get a URL

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