Man, all of us 2000s kids really missed out on this sort of thing. It was hard to get into programming, much less assembler: nobody even knew how. I eventually

Man, all of us 2000s kids really missed out on this sort of thing. It was hard to get into programming, much less assembler: nobody even knew how. I eventually picked up a "For Dummies" book that taught be the basics, and worked my way up from there. First Python, then a touch of Ruby, and then some Scheme, and a bit of C. I picked up shell and Unix along the way.