I had. I wrote some Applesoft BASIC as a kid, and was handy enough with LOGO that they brought in teachers from around the city to have me teach them at age 12.

I had. I wrote some Applesoft BASIC as a kid, and was handy enough with LOGO that they brought in teachers from around the city to have me teach them at age 12. My first and only lisp. The other side of this story is that I always encourage people to keep their modern-day children away from BASIC, at it only makes learning any other language harder. My bad Smalltalk experience is hard to imagine today: Hey kid, here's a language that can only be written in one IDE on one operating system. Don't worry that the IDE doesn't run on your Linux computer, because the programs that you write won't run on your computer, either. The artifacts you generate won't be files, they'll be images. We're not going to actually cover that part, so when you're ready to turn this in you'll need to copy-and-paste the working code into your email client. You'll know it's ready when you press "F5" and nothing bad happens.