Ya, I think that is definitely important. You need to get started with something that can give you quick feedback. I remember one of my first little qbasic pro

Ya, I think that is definitely important. You need to get started with something that can give you quick feedback. I remember one of my first little qbasic programs could output colors on the screen with different tones as it changed. It was probably 10 or 15 lines of code and hitting that key to run the program on a loop was like a little drug high. I was hooked and I could see the endless possibilities of what I could create by just modifying what I already had on screen. Had my first foray into programming been a terminal and a book about C, I most definitely wouldn't have stuck with it.