I learnt programming with Basic (since around being 6 to 18), and I wouldn't really recommend it. Flash is real programming if you want to; it's Ecmascript (aka Javascript), IIRC, plus lots of stuff ...

For those who might be wondering, the programming language was created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman in 1993. Furthermore, note that most of the R libraries are written using R, but for others, C ...