My school library used to have books full of games, text art, and programs written in BASIC that I used to type in line by line to our C64. I wish I could say

My school library used to have books full of games, text art, and programs written in BASIC that I used to type in line by line to our C64. I wish I could say I learned a lot about computer programming (I didn't) but the biggest thing I do remember was being thrilled at being able to make typed instructions turn into things happening on the screen. These programs would get run only a handful of times, since I had no way (or it never occured to me) to save them for later use.