I also went from BASIC to Turbo Pascal (though in my case it was GW-BASIC) which i learned from a thick book - that book was my treasure for a long time as a ki

I also went from BASIC to Turbo Pascal (though in my case it was GW-BASIC) which i learned from a thick book - that book was my treasure for a long time as a kid. I remember being annoyed initially because i had to declare my variables before using them, but it was worth it since unlike GW-BASIC, Turbo Pascal was able to create EXE files (which was the only reason i decided to use it :-P).