Squeak (http://www.squeak.org/ http://www.squeak.org/) is fun. It's designed for teaching, has lots of high level libraries available and it's simple (everythi

Squeak (http://www.squeak.org/ http://www.squeak.org/) is fun. It's designed for teaching, has lots of high level libraries available and it's simple (everything is in one system). This isn't going to do much to help with Unix/Linux mind, but as someone else pointed out programming is supposed to be fun.