I learn programming languages today the way I learned my first one. I have (what is now an ancient) copy of the old DEC book, "101 BASIC Computer Games" and I

I learn programming languages today the way I learned my first one. I have (what is now an ancient) copy of the old DEC book, "101 BASIC Computer Games" and I port some of those games to the new language. Sometimes I add bells and whistles and it's not porting attempting to be true to the original; but they offer small enough problems to get at least the syntax under my fingers and some of the larger ones can start to give me a sense of how I'll need to think should I try something serious. And the first language I learned was... well BASIC... but it was on the VIC-20 & later C-64; but that still required a translation as the PDP-11 BASIC was rather different that was was on the Commodore machines.