The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. According to the TIOBE ...

No Language, Just Wires In 1946, the ENIAC was programmed by plugging wires from one socket to another. That led to the plugboards on tabulating machines and later to programming languages.

You're taking a new programming class this fall, and you don't know anything about code. Python is taught widely in schools, and it's one of the most loved programming languages because it's simple.

In fact, you might want to do the hard work in a programming language and then use your scripting language to build out features. In theory, this should be easy.