My father showed me a simple program in Sinclair BASIC (on a Russian Speccy clone) that draws a snowman when I was 5 years old, but he couldn't teach me anythin

My father showed me a simple program in Sinclair BASIC (on a Russian Speccy clone) that draws a snowman when I was 5 years old, but he couldn't teach me anything more about programming sadly. Then when I was ~12 years old, I joined my middle school's programming club to learn Turbo Pascal 7.0, ahead of my classmates who waited until high school.