https://www.hedy.org/start

For someone learning programming from zero, it was specifically invented to be:

Hedy is the easy way to get started with textual programming languages! Hedy is free to use, open source, and unlike any other textual programming language in three ways.

1. Hedy is multi-lingual, you can use Hedy in your own language
2. Hedy is gradual, so you can learn one concept and its syntax a time
3. Hedy is built for the classroom, allowing teachers to fully customize their student’s experience

Adding to the points above:

At the end of the gradual progression, Hedy becomes vanilla Python.

An aspect of the 3rd point is having an online editor & execution environment, so you don’t need to deal with setup.

After completing the Hedy lessons, can follow up with other learning resources like freecodecamp.org or codeacademy.com.