As a person who taught himself programming (and a bit of English) with QBasic, and also have known many people that did the same. I agree with this article. Bu

As a person who taught himself programming (and a bit of English) with QBasic, and also have known many people that did the same. I agree with this article. But you have other BASICs such as the one for computers such as the ZX Spectrum. Python in my opinion can also be used to teach programming, since many high level constructs are optional and syntax is simple.