I started with Basic on a C-64 when I was a kid, mainly using the official manual if I remember right. When I went on to the Amiga, I didn't code anything for a

I started with Basic on a C-64 when I was a kid, mainly using the official manual if I remember right. When I went on to the Amiga, I didn't code anything for a few years and eventually wrote some extensions for bulletin board systems such as AmiExpress and CNet. On the PC I did about the same, coding add-ons for PCBoard, mainly by decompiling other add-ons and learning from them. Later on I started with C/C++ (and some x86 assembler) and that's when it started to become more serious. I got a programmer job, moved on to Java, web development and many more languages. I wonder which language 'kids' are learning first these days though. Looking back I'd say Basic was a perfect starting point but it's pretty much gone these days, isn't it?