Personally..... (Score 1)

I'd be inclined to say Pascal, BASIC nips my head :) Back @ Good Ol' High School we were taught COMAL (which is more or less BASIC), ahh the nostalgic memories of writing an electronic score board and using flashing graphics to represent motion. :,-)

Now I'm at University we were introduced to PASCAL in first year Software Development. Its really straight forward and, as mentioned, can be used with Delphi which you could use as the next step up.

Da Cr33p