But they aren’t asking for tools they’re asking for guidance. What’s the point of all that expensive hardware if they have no clue what to do with it and where to start learning?

Not everyone learns in the same way. If someone learns better by asking others for guidance and you tell them to just read a book I hope they spank your arse with that brick of paper smh.

No because most tutorials will start from “write print(“Hello World”)” and the like without mentioning compiling or where to write it or with what…

I didn’t really get into coding until someone guided me through the basics of python, which is an easy language that doesn’t even require compiling. One of the reasons was precisely not knowing where to start.