The only problem with BASIC is that it's kind of gross scaled up for medium-sized applications. It's downright charming at the Tiny-BASIC, VIC-20 BASIC, or eve

The only problem with BASIC is that it's kind of gross scaled up for medium-sized applications. It's downright charming at the Tiny-BASIC, VIC-20 BASIC, or even BASIC-52 level though. LOGO has real depth, an elegant syntax, and there's an alternate universe where it has Python's niche as everyone's favorite scripting language. But it's effectively a toy language so there's nowhere to go from "learning". Here's my hot take: before you teach anyone "the basics of programming", teach them how to enter formulas in a spreadsheet.