The question of “where to begin” is certainly a lot harder now. Learning to program the way my generation did, the programming itself was obviously harder - ass

The question of “where to begin” is certainly a lot harder now. Learning to program the way my generation did, the programming itself was obviously harder - assembly vs Python for example - but the path and the progression was laid out for you. For me it was BBC Basic, then 6502, then 68k with DevPac on the ST... myself and a friend wrote our own driver for a modem we found in a skip and that is how we first got online... good times