Please, don't start them off in Visual Basic or Java. I learned those 2 back when I was in high school, and when I taught myself Python, I was overjoyed at how

Please, don't start them off in Visual Basic or Java. I learned those 2 back when I was in high school, and when I taught myself Python, I was overjoyed at how much less annoying bits there were to deal with. I'm not that great of a programmer, but Python just felt so much easier to just pick up and go. As for actual course material, I'm not quite sure. Python does include a turtle module, and that's pretty classic for teaching programming at least. Good luck!