First of all, I'm a high school student programming in PHP and TI-BASIC currently learning Python to prepare for university.

I find Python to be a good language, although parts of the syntax (especially the tab-instead-of-curly-brackets part) feels very awkward at first (compared to PHP, C++ and Java, the latter two I dont code in but I've read some books on them as well as other peoples code).

Also, I've heard that the advantage with learning C# instead of C++, is that it's the language you use with Microsofts XNA. I dont know if (m)any game studios are actually using XNA though. Does anyone know this?

tl;dr: I think Python seems nice for people new to programming, although it wasn't my first.