All medias stopped talking about it once they found out the shooter couldn’t be used to demonize a minority

I’d also recommend something like scratch. If these people are non-technical as you say, they might not understand the concepts of directories on a computer, zipped files and so on. You’d be risking spending your teaching time troubleshooting the setup process and losing their interest before they ever get to write a line.

Of course that’s just based on how I interpreted your post, you know best their potential skill level.

It takes a lot less energy and it’s faster.