What language you want to use will depend on the kind of game you want to develop, but whatever direction you're taking, it will take time to learn enough to build a game from scratch.

If you just want to pull a game together quickly, something like this may be more up your street : http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/

If you want to start learning to code "properly", i think squeak ( http://www.squeak.org/ ) is a brilliant idea. Its Object Orientated from the start, so migration to java etc isn't that big a jump.