Having QBASIC right there and available to play with was my introduction to programming as a curious 11 year old. I remember reading every topic in the help br

Having QBASIC right there and available to play with was my introduction to programming as a curious 11 year old. I remember reading every topic in the help browser over and over looking for how to write to the screen, because I didn't want my first program to waste paper with the PRINT statement. One section of the manual told me to use labels instead of old fashioned line numbers, but I could never figure out the syntax to GOTO them. So I kept a nice index card with line number ranges for all the functions in my program. It worked great until I had to spend a day debugging a line number that ended with O instead of 0. It was always a big mystery why renaming my program from .BAS to .EXE didn't let me click to run it like other programs. Ah, memories...