My best advice here is allow them to bring their own laptop and use their preferred editing environment.
If their way of working is to run small pieces of code through the compiler/interpreter to spot errors, they should be able to do that, rather than pointing fingers at a whiteboard and saying "oooh that's not the right way to initialize a std::vector".
If their way of working is to write inside out, outside in, top to bottom, bottom to top, that's all easy in an editor, but not on a whiteboard.
They should be allowed to search for references or even cut-and-paste the boilerplate part of whatever it is, and edit it to complete the task. That is more representative of how people actually code.
Dealing with unfamiliar hardware, let alone a whiteboard, hugely, hugely gets in the way of thinking about coding and is not inclusive of all coding styles.
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