Respect!!
This seems to be a maximum of cool use for a minimum of coding.

As a matter of fact I have just three weeks ago taught a school girl (some 16 years old) the beginnings of programming and had chosen Perl for that because of the easyness (no declarations, variable types and the like). One of the results was a genetic algorithm within a week (Hello World GA, OK, I cleaned the code a bit ;-)
I could well imagine that the playing stage will be improved by your tutor because you can skip XEmacs and Bash for the beginning :-)

Well done, I think!
Regards
Stefan K

$dom = "skamphausen.de";   ##   May The Open Source Be With You!
$Mail = "mail@$dom;  $Url = "http://www.$dom";
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