I also learned to program in BASIC, but I learned by creating games on the TI-83+ graphing calculator. The limited nature of the platform led me to learn quite

I also learned to program in BASIC, but I learned by creating games on the TI-83+ graphing calculator. The limited nature of the platform led me to learn quite a lot in addition to the basics: performance optimization, garbage collection, matrices, lists, UX, maintainability, keyboard shortcuts, and how to read documentation. Would I recommend this platform to someone else? Only if they needed to learn to program while pretending to do math homework.