[parennoob]

What are some examples? I'd like to teach some people I know the basic concepts of programming, and I was thinking of starting with Python. I'd like to hear of some languages that have more beginner-friendly environments.

[niels_olson]

Turtle/logo, squeak/smalltalk. This minecraft mod is learntomod/JavaScript. There's pippy for Python.

[innguest]

Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/

[Methusalah]

I'd go with C#.