Before I started learning Python, the only programming I did was in BASIC back in the late 80s to mid 90s as a kid.

Python is a lot easier to learn than C++. It's one of the easiest languages to learn. If I'm not mistaken, it was first developed to teach programming, then they realized it could be useful for actual production software. It's one of the most popular languages and it's intuitive because it's almost like reading English. Someone described it as pseudo-code that actually runs.😄