PC is still the easiest platform.

I'd agree with the above users: PC is a good choice for a beginning game programmer, whether they have prior non-games-programming experience or not, unless they happen to have a lot of non-games experience with a popular alternative platform; someone experienced in making business apps for iPhone might choose to also develop games for that platform for example.

Why PC?

• There are lots of really good tools, and lots of resources for learning how to use them. This isn't always true of other platforms.
  
• There are lots of examples and tutorials for PC development that just work -- no messing around porting the ideas to your choice of platform.
  
• There's a huge choice of useful libraries to make life easier for you -- many other platforms might not have so many available, or might require additional work to get them working.
  
• It's simple to develop and test on the same machine, allowing for a quick feedback cycle.
  

Even with your prior programming experience, I would suggest at least one game for Windows PC before considering other platforms; this will allow you to focus on the particulars of developing a game without any additional headaches that targeting another platform can sometimes introduce.


Hope that's helpful!

Hey is the SharpGL to C# as JVM is to Java? Sorry, focused on Java atm won't be looking into the Cs until latorz.