Besides some Scratch early on I really got into programming in TI Basic on my graphing calculator and it was pretty great. Minimal learning curve to start writi

Besides some Scratch early on I really got into programming in TI Basic on my graphing calculator and it was pretty great. Minimal learning curve to start writing useful programs, and sets you up well for high level languages. That being said I would probably still recommend Scratch for teaching kids to program, and Python for adults.