Best Programming Language to start with?

Hello peeps. As someone who hasn't been lucky enough to be immersed into the world of programming when he was young, and has a hard time getting into it with net ressources, I need an easy and fast-learning language to start off with.

Any recommendations? Cheers!

Here's my story as a student: I begun programming @ uni and it was Java: Don't do it! You don't even know what a loop is yet they want to tell you about objects and static methods... When a program wasn't compiling, I was adding "static" everywhere and most of the time, it would compile (while killing all the real methods I had to create, the program would not give me the good results :(

After 2 lessons, I forgot this and learned C by myself, then C++, then Java. It's not that hard if you have the motivation and a good book. In the end, I knew 3 languages (and how they worked) while the other students could not even understand what a static member of a class was.

Don't try to learn OO in a first language, it's too confusing, and I was even more confused because Java forces you to write objects all the time, even for f(x)=2*x.