Unless she's really into web stuff for some reason, I'd steer clear of JavaScript. I never had much fun hacking on JavaScript, personally, and I find it to be a

Unless she's really into web stuff for some reason, I'd steer clear of JavaScript. I never had much fun hacking on JavaScript, personally, and I find it to be a somewhat harsh mistress. Python is a nice, clean, fun language; you already mentioned PyGame, so why not just go straight to Python?