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42 Lua's pretty easy, as is Python. Python's turtle library, I've found, is a really good way to get someone started in programming, since they can directly see what their code does when they run it. None of this complicated text-based tomfoolery (well, not on the output side, at least).
Try running this code (you can just type or copy it right into the python shell, no need to create a text file even):