I mean, I've been a professional developer now for more than 20 years, and it started with learning QBasic from a book and then building stuff with Visual Basic

I mean, I've been a professional developer now for more than 20 years, and it started with learning QBasic from a book and then building stuff with Visual Basic. So VB was literally life-changing for me. I even bought (and still have somewhere!) a book on doing graphics or VFX or something using Visual Basic, though I never really did much with it. I think it was Visual Basic with DirectX or something. Though funny enough I ended up working at Autodesk for a few years on things related to 3d printing and computational geometry, so I eventually did some graphics-related stuff.