Flash holds a special place in my heart. I didn't take CS classes until college (probably because it's so hard for middle and high schools to find CS teachers),

Flash holds a special place in my heart. I didn't take CS classes until college (probably because it's so hard for middle and high schools to find CS teachers), but my middle school did have (back then) Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash installed. I have such fond memories of sitting in the library during lunch and after school and following YouTube tutorials to figure out how to make dinky little Flash game. I still think that Macromedia Flash was the best introduction to programming I could have had and I can't for the life of me see why Scratch has become the defacto introductory thing for programming for kids