Why are we recommending something as complicated as Scheme for a beginner? You have to admit, if that's the first language you came across on your journey you might well have quit. Instead I recommend Python. It's easy, you will have fun, you will enjoy programming. It will delight you. Then when you're hooked you can move onto solving problems with other languages. (C is also a good language to learn but it's harder than Python.)
Python is good for beginners and testing out ideas is very easy. Prog has valid points about languages here but almost everyone who posts is seriously into programming and I mean seriously. They mean well but in practice most of their advice would kill your ambition.