New Programmer

I got my favorite shirt covered in paint today, Hi I'm Rigel.

I have little experience in programming, i used visual basic a semester ago briefly in a computer course and I enjoyed it a lot.  I was wondering if you guys can help me with choosing my first Programming language that is effective, easy to get tutorials for, and mostly Free. My friend is pushing Java on me but i want to know what you guys think would be good.

Java is great and practical you can use bruce eckels free online books to learn it. don't listen to 12 the lambda faggot, these guys just push academic languages because they feel stupid only knowing useless tools.