I used to use QBasic a bit, even got into the odd bit of programming with it (tried simple games, but never really got anywhere). I think the language is a bit outdated and not really much good for teaching programming, but it should be easier for newbies to pick up and certainly a lot easier than Assembly/C/C++.

slick: If you know some QBasic, keep on churning out the tutorials, it seems that a lot of people are interested in reading them even if QBasic is seen as a bit out of date and simple for a lot of programming tasks.