On Friday, 17 October 2014 at 09:31:45 UTC, Chris wrote:
In basic you can easily get simple graphics too, it's really interesting for learning, because your program can perform simple visual tasks: http://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=TutGettingStartedQBAn "instantly rewarding" language is Lua (lua.org).
Personally, I wouldn't recommend an IDE for beginners.
In IDE you press F5 and see the program running.