I started with a computer that booted to the BASIC prompt, the ZX Spectrum, and later moved to Z80 assembly language. After the low-level stuff it was MS-DOS 3

I started with a computer that booted to the BASIC prompt, the ZX Spectrum, and later moved to Z80 assembly language. After the low-level stuff it was MS-DOS 3.3, with DEBUG.com for assembling intel assembler, and later MS-BASIC, Turbo Pascal, C, and all the later languages. BASIC still has a soft-spot in my life, I wrote a trivial implementation of BASIC in golang which is complete enough to be fun, but missing specific features for running things like the widely-reshared Star Trek game. Maybe I should setup a stretch-goal of completing a bunch of common games/programs and work on it some more. BASIC was never my cup of tea, but I used it because it was all that was available at the time. And books of programs really helped.