Beer for new guy = hefeweizen. You can't go wrong.
I, of course, would suggest partial mashing (check out the link in my sig), but a basic hefeweizen extract recipe consists of the following:
6 lbs Wheat Dry Malt Extract (or 7 lbs Wheat Liquid Malt Extract)
1 oz Hops (Hallertau, Tettnanger, Saaz, Mt. Hood, or other mid-alpha hop)
WLP300 Yeast
That's it. If you want, you could steep 0.25 lb of chocolate malt and make a dunkelweizen.