Ugh, I really don't recommend python. I felt perfectly fine going straight from html to actually programming with Java. I found python a bore, and quite a waste of time. One thing that I REALLY liked, though, was Alice. If you can find a course on it, there's lots of fun to be had. Or you can just go it alone, as it is pretty intuitive.  Is supposed to make courses like Java and C++ easier to interpret. http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=down...d_alice2.2  

Quote:In Alice's interactive interface, students drag and drop graphic tiles to create a program, where the instructions correspond to standard statements in a production oriented programming language, such as Java, C++, and C#. Alice allows students to immediately see how their animation programs run, enabling them to easily understand the relationship between the programming statements and the behavior of objects in their animation. By manipulating the objects in their virtual world, students gain experience with all the programming constructs typically taught in an introductory programming course.

If you wish to mess around and see immediately results, then that is my first starting suggestion. Or just jump right in... Java is perfectly fine start. C++ if not Java.