I guess I was lucky in the the computer I started with, the ZX Spectrum, had a pretty decent manual. Which also managed to cover assembly language. So my rout

I guess I was lucky in the the computer I started with, the ZX Spectrum, had a pretty decent manual. Which also managed to cover assembly language. So my route to coding was first of all BASIC, then assembly language. At the time I was 11-12 years old and it didn't seem like a huge jump, though I guess I can see it was now! I think my learning went BASIC -> Assembly, on the z80. Then later QBASIC on the PC to assembly, edited with debug.com, and after that I started doing "real" programming with C, Perl and all the other languages that followed. I'm still sad that most people don't have any built-in programming environment to their computers that is so easy to start with these days. I guess javascript is close, since everybody has a browser. But it's not quite the same.