I did learn BASIC first, but then Pascal and in college and from books very soon learned the foundations of structured programming. It was an instant aha! since

I did learn BASIC first, but then Pascal and in college and from books very soon learned the foundations of structured programming. It was an instant aha! since as soon as you write anything but trivial programs, you feel you need functions. What I find disturbing is that author thought every language was the same save a few keywords, and then publisher was happy to put that crap to print.