I managed to avoid most of that, thanks to a bit of sheer, dumb luck. Back in the early 80's, my elementary school piloted a program (inspired by Seymour Paper

I managed to avoid most of that, thanks to a bit of sheer, dumb luck. Back in the early 80's, my elementary school piloted a program (inspired by Seymour Papert, I presume) to teach school age children to program in Logo. So we had a lab full of twelve C64's across the hall from the Apple ][ lab and were taught to program in Logo. This included structured control flow, sub programs, recursion and the like. It was a far, far better experience than I imagine it would've been to be initially exposed to Basic. In retrospect, this is probably a big part of why, a few years later, I found some of the structured programming facilities of QB4 as appealing as I did.