QBasic was my first language, and I don't knock it for the purpose it served at the time, but for a new programmer, I'd point them at either JS (if they really want to do web things) or Python. BASIC had its time, there are better languages now, and that's ok.
Better languages sure but more difficult ones. I don't do Python very often but there is a still a lot to unpack there. JavaScript is in some ways easier but some ways harder.
QBASIC is on a whole different level.
When my daughter was little, I taught her how to program using Visual Basic longer after it was obsolete. But getting a window on screen and interacting with it is 100x easier there than with Python.
