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FYI: Python managed to eek out the most widely used computer science language used to teach programming in universities.
Honestly, learning how to program is a different beast from learning how to program well in a certain language. Choose one that seems to have the most resources you find useful.
Personally, if I had to teach someone from scratch, I'd go with Adventures in Minecraft. If you were of a childish disposition (given your language), it might be a great fit.
You also might consider C# or Scala - there are some good intro to programming courses for those languages. This book teaches a beginning user how to do basically everything upto and including using linux command line etc using Scala.
Variables and values (Scala), statements, expressions, conditionals and branching, functions, recursion, iteration (loops), simple collections (list, array), basic data structures (string, trees, queue and priority queue, etc.), (file) input and output, etc. Pretty much everything you would imagine a 2-semester intro course would cover.
A big part of the two intro courses was the development of a project over the course of each semester, which required a substantial amount of coding. (I implemented Snake for CS I, and tried and failed to implement a working tower defense game in CS II.)
Here's the book if you are interested.