I wrote a little bit of basic on C64, but I was around 9 years old and din't understand English well (I'm Danish). Later, I found QBasic and spent a few hundre

I wrote a little bit of basic on C64, but I was around 9 years old and din't understand English well (I'm Danish). Later, I found QBasic and spent a few hundred hours messing around in that, the built-in index and manual with examples made it extremely nice for me, as I could always try out things where I didn't understand what they did from the description (still lacking English skills at that point). I mostly wrote stuff that used the lowres graphics mode and put stuff on screen, and a tic-tac-toe game (every move was hardcoded, I didn't know of algorithms at that time). I never did anything interesting with it, but it seeded my curiosity in programming, probably made it a lot easier for me to understand stuff like variables and calling functions when I moved to PHP, and later C. I've worked the past 10 years as a programmer, and I think I owe a bit of that to basic.