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Honestly you'll find more beginner resources for Python than anything else and it's worth learning because it's used everywhere. Lua is also extremely beginner friendly (even if it has some bad habits like 1 indexed arrays.)
If you've got a math background LISP is a good place to start as well, particularly the old MIT/UCB Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) book, that was the start of a formal CS education before python took off.
Clojure is a Lisp and a damn fine one,