best languages to learn as a newcomer
mahmud: PLT Scheme is clean, free, well documented, widely supported and beautiful. It has a decent numeric tower, and a good GUI toolkit for writing simple interfaces.I taught most of it to my 15 year old nephew over two weeks, this last winter holiday.There is zero configuration; you double click on the downloaded package, it self installs, and you have 5+ different programming languages and levels of Scheme in one package. You can get help right from within the IDE.