You're not missing much. If you know Python, you could go back
  in time to the 1980s and master Microsoft BASIC in a few
  hours... if you had to.

  Same with me and Python. I whipped together something quick in
  Python to see if I could make Minecraft PC do a few things using
  this mod: [1]https://github.com/kbsriram/mcpiapi and it was
  pretty easy.

  I had to learn PHP in a hurry once for a website thing and same
  thing - it's all not that hard. Once you get one under your
  belt, you can do any of them with a little gumption.

References

  Visible links
  1. https://github.com/kbsriram/mcpiapi