If you want a simple dev environment, language and tools, you can start with Microsoft WebMatrix and Visual Basic and then graduate up to more complex stuff. Vi

If you want a simple dev environment, language and tools, you can start with Microsoft WebMatrix and Visual Basic and then graduate up to more complex stuff. Visual Basic is very similar syntax to python in a lot of ways. WebMatrix IDE and ASP.NET makes it simple to do. One click deploy to Azure and you are done.