It's cool that they're putting programming languages where kids might get exposure to them. Of course, most of the reason people were acquainted with BASIC was

It's cool that they're putting programming languages where kids might get exposure to them. Of course, most of the reason people were acquainted with BASIC was that it was the only thing that came with a home computer. Typing might be a bit of a pain though which would limit the usefulness of this sort of thing; a visual language might work better on systems with no keyboard (although I'm not a big fan of them). BASIC was my first language. About the best I can say for it is that it underscored the sequential aspect of the machine. I'm curious as to what people's first languages were here.