I've seen people ask 'what was your first race', which I think is a better equivalent. Answers vary from "high school track" to "a 5k walk for breast cancer". P

I've seen people ask 'what was your first race', which I think is a better equivalent. Answers vary from "high school track" to "a 5k walk for breast cancer". Potential answers to "what was your first program" range from your BASIC answer to my own "a quadratic equation solver on my TI-83". I find it interesting, and when you are aiming to use the survey responses to tell stories, I think you'll get some good material out of these questions. Even reading the other comments here get you a lot of different 'first programs'.