Every programming class I ever had was using logo on an Apple II, where mostly you just sat around making making the little puck fly off the side of the screen

Every programming class I ever had was using logo on an Apple II, where mostly you just sat around making making the little puck fly off the side of the screen at warp 9.9. Most of the personal computers in the 80s came with a basic interpreter built in and they were largely compatible with each other aside from some syntax differences and the extended screen characters being vastly different. Typing in programs from magazines and writing my own did far more for me then any course I ever took. I dabbled with Turbo Pascal when I got my first IBM knock-off but settled for a little $20 C compiler - Power C - that worked in real mode and spit out DoS executables really quickly. Porting code from Unix to the Power C runtime taught me a lot. Today I write in Go almost exclusively and marvel at how far things have come.