Isn't a big reason why so many people your age got started with BASIC that there were relatively widely available devices and programs that you could program in

Isn't a big reason why so many people your age got started with BASIC that there were relatively widely available devices and programs that you could program in BASIC on? I first saw BASIC used on a graphing calculator, and it was something you could mess with in class when bored. Now that laptops are reasonably ubiquitous, it will be interesting to see how early those who would have started with BASIC get into higher level languages.