I must admit that I'm ever so happy to have seen this post, QBasic was massively important towards me becoming a programmer. Kudos for the post, it's important

I must admit that I'm ever so happy to have seen this post, QBasic was massively important towards me becoming a programmer. Kudos for the post, it's important for me to know that my nieces and nephews might see computers the same way I did: through an uncomplicated lens. The appeal for me was to give, as you wrote, a simple interface to programming. The Apple RAM II I had was not as easily accessible for programming at my single digit age. QBasic was available on the 486 SX based MS-DOS OS we had, and it opened my eyes. Within a year or two I was reading Herb Schildt' "Teach Yourself C" and using Borland C for the first time. But at a young age you need that first step to be accessible! Nice one...