Programming Language

What's the best programming language for an absolute beginner to learn.  I want to make games like Call of Duty and Battlefield.

You don't need to know C++ for anything. C++ is a terrible language. I am an expert in C++, I use it at my day job, and I hate it. It's disgusting sewage stew I filled my head with cause at the time I thought it was how ``real'' programming was done, and the only way to write truly efficient programs. What a load of beeswax! Luckily it's not all useless (I can get jobs with it) however if I could go back I would have became an expert in Java instead.

GLSL and HLSL are useful because of today's disgusting one million different architecture GPU model, and they're also fun and informative :)