
Most of us that work in the IT industry have been around for a long time. We started out in our parents basement writing code in some BASIC environment, ussually Commodore BASIC or QBASIC. Do you remember how thrilling it was? Your first program and it was something extremely basic but the point was it worked. Some of us got hooked right away and kept trying to solve problems and added more and more pushing the capabilities of whatever language we used. As we got older the environments progressed and the programming tools progressed and got more complicated.
Out of the ones available, I like Python best.
As far as GUI programming goes for Python there's always Glade, but keep an eye open for the Glade 3 clone named Gazpacho.
http://gruppy.sicem.biz/componentes#gazpacho
It is written in Python, and is showing lot of potential, arguably more so than Glade itself.