Learn GNU Guile, it's a dialect of Scheme. AFAIK, Scheme is specifically intended for use in teaching programming. I spent a late night reading the manual and h

Learn GNU Guile, it's a dialect of Scheme. AFAIK, Scheme is specifically intended for use in teaching programming. I spent a late night reading the manual and hacking out some toy programs, and the rest is history. TLDR: Guile is very easy to learn