In the early 80s at around 10yrs old I taught myself BASIC from books/manuals on a TRS-80 model III at my fathers office and my own ZX Spectrum at home that I'd

In the early 80s at around 10yrs old I taught myself BASIC from books/manuals on a TRS-80 model III at my fathers office and my own ZX Spectrum at home that I'd saved up for. Totally failed at teaching myself Z80 machine code on the Spectrum though. Part of that failure was probably something to do with manually assembling the code and POKEing it into memory (ie crap tools). Did more AmigaBASIC on an Amiga 500 in the late 80s. Totally failed at teaching myself C on the Amiga too (crap tools also played a part here - using a really buggy C compiler I found on a Fred Fish disk).