GW-BASIC was the first Basic I wrote substantial code in! I got a kids' book with drawings and text explaing variables and such from my dad. I think I was 7 or

GW-BASIC was the first Basic I wrote substantial code in! I got a kids' book with drawings and text explaing variables and such from my dad. I think I was 7 or 8. It was not long that I reached for the extensive and English-language manual for GW-BASIC which came with the computer. Being a Dutch kid, this allowed me to both learn some English AND some Basic. Prior to that my dad had a Tandy TRS-80 model III but at that point I was 6 or 7 and my typing skills were holding me back from writing more than 3 or 4 lines of code.