Let's begin at the beginning

One of the biggest hurdle for any newbie is the entire setup before you can say "Hello, World!"

I always believed in the power of cloud, even before there was such a thing as cloud.

Hence, my biggest objection to entire programming paradigm was installing an IDE (interactive development environment).

Have no fear! We live in the world of cloud now. There must be myriad of places where you can code on the fly. On the phone. Right in the browser.

I know of one - leetcode.com.

You can choose any language you want and you can code away.

Here are the easy steps.

1. Go to leetcode.com
2. Click problems.

3. Click on any problem. (I clicked "Add Two Numbers)

4. Click on "debug code in playground" (see below image)

5. Add this line
6. Run code
7. See the output from your program.

Voila!! It is that simple. In 7 easy steps, you have written your first program without knowing much.

Now you can save it.

8. Click on the pencil icon.

9. Type any name you want to give this file.
10. Click save