I got started with BASICA on a Tandy 1000. My dad had a newer computer at the time but he certainly wouldn't let me use it. He was afraid that I would get stu

I got started with BASICA on a Tandy 1000. My dad had a newer computer at the time but he certainly wouldn't let me use it. He was afraid that I would get stuck in an endless loop while writing to the hard drive and wipe it (which he had apparently done before in his own early programming experiments). After a few years of playing around with BASIC as a ten year old I got my own computer and from there it was BASIC -> Euphoria -> C++ -> HTML and JavaScript -> PHP and MySQL -> and now my latest undertaking, nearly ten years later: JSP. Now I am more interested in web development, though I still have strong skills in application development. It is a learning process, and a fun one at that.