Not for complete but for beginners lightly familiar with programming it is overall not difficult to teach the basics, often easier than to stubborn seniors who want to do it their way only :)

    var start = "commtext c00\">";
    var end = "</div>";

    using var http = new HttpClient();
    var page = await http.GetStringAsync("https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41425416");

    var commStart = page.IndexOf(start) + start.Length;
    var commEnd = page.IndexOf(end, commStart);

    Console.WriteLine(page[commStart..commEnd]);

or

    var host = WebApplication
        .CreateBuilder()
        .Build();

    host.MapGet("/", () => "Hello World");
    host.Run("http://+:8080");

Not at all. I still teach interns and until 2 years ago complete beginners.

I can teach them a console app with top level statements and have it running before they have installed a Python virtual environment.