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There's a simple scripting language built into the Windows OS: VBScript. Nothing to buy, nothing to install, you save the text file as .VBS and run it from the command prompt. Scriptng is a great gateway to "real" programming and a useful skill to have.
I played with BASIC as a teen like the author did, and I made little programs, but what really taught me what I could do with programming was not the language but the dearth of games available to me. I had one game which loaded from tape--too much trouble a lot of the time. Therefore, I'd type in games from a programming book I bought. That's how I got my start: needing to do it. I started writing my own games.
