Less so having them in school, but I cut my programming teeth on an Acorn Electron, then later a BBC Master, that we had at home. Mostly in BASIC (a better imp

Less so having them in school, but I cut my programming teeth on an Acorn Electron, then later a BBC Master, that we had at home. Mostly in BASIC (a better implementation than most common 8-bits had: proper procs & functions rather than just GOTO/GOSUB and decent variable name length limits) but later with a bit of 6502 assembler added in for sprite drawing/moving & similar (BBC BASIC had a built-in multi-pass assembler – another significant point in its favour). I doubt I'd be where I am today if I'd not had that (and my parents had not had the foresight to let me stretch bed-time rules when doing something learn-y rather than just playing games!).