I think JavaScript is an excellent choice. This is about getting people started, and you can start making your own apps in the browser right away with very litt

I think JavaScript is an excellent choice. This is about getting people started, and you can start making your own apps in the browser right away with very little overhead. You can also ignore boring stuff like static types and only learn them later when doing bigger things. JavaScript also lets you learn functional programming basic concepts in an incremental way.