At the age of 12, I learned BASIC on a TRS-80 Color Computer 2, using the books that came with the machine. When I was 16, I ditched GOTO and GOSUB by learning

At the age of 12, I learned BASIC on a TRS-80 Color Computer 2, using the books that came with the machine. When I was 16, I ditched GOTO and GOSUB by learning QuickBasic on a PC. QuickBasic was essentially the DOS equivalent of VisualBasic, and compiled to executables. It came with its own IDE. I made a decent amount of money selling a kiosk-style menu system using it. QBasic, which came later, was an interpreted version of QuickBasic, so I never bothered with it. That was 27 years ago. These days I'm doing Python/Django mostly, but am getting into Elixir/Phoenix. I have yet to take a formal programming course.