💬 3 people gave me 3 different first languages. Which one do I start with?

I decided last month that I'm going to learn coding. Nobody around me works in IT, so I asked 3 people. My neighbour's son, who's in his final year of engineering, said Java. His whole college runs on it. A colleague at work said Python, because you can make something appear on the screen on day 1. A guy on YouTube said JavaScript, because you can build a website and show your friends. I tried a bit of everything. Last Sunday I installed Python and wrote a program that asks your name and says hello. It took 2 hours because I typed a colon wrong. Those were the happiest 2 hours I've had in weeks. Then I opened a Java tutorial and the first program had 5 lines just to say hello. I closed the tab. JavaScript I haven't touched, mostly because I don't know where I'm supposed to type it. My budget is small. I've got an old laptop with 4GB of RAM, and I can give maybe 1 hour a day. I'm not trying to get a job next month. I just want to find out if this is something I can do. My brother thinks I'm wasting time. He may be right, but I'd like to try for 3 months before I decide anything. So here's my plan, and you can tell me if it's silly. Python for 3 months, then see. If it still feels fun after the first hard chapter, I'll carry on and maybe look at websites later. I don't want to pick the wrong thing and lose 3 months. I know that sounds dramatic. If you started from zero, which one did you pick first and would you pick it again?

I started with JavaScript because I wanted to see something move on the screen, and it kept me going for a while.

Go with Python. You've already done the hard part by getting hello to print on your own. The colon mistake is something everybody makes, even after years, so don't read much into it. 1 hour a day is plenty if you do it daily. Skip Java for now, it'll make more sense later. And your brother isn't wrong to worry, but 3 months of trying costs you very little.