I was 8 years old the first time I wrote a line of code, in BASIC on the family Apple ][e. Did that for a few years before moving on to AMOS (also a BASIC, tho

I was 8 years old the first time I wrote a line of code, in BASIC on the family Apple ][e. Did that for a few years before moving on to AMOS (also a BASIC, though definitely more modern and useful -- it even had a compiler) on the Amiga. The summer after Junior High I started learning C on DOS (Turbo C!) and at that point I was done with BASIC. I don't think I could have started with C in grade school, BASIC is what got me hooked on programming :)