30 and started with QBasic. Yeah yeah... i heard it was terrible at the time but i didn't have internet to get a real compiler or language. Had a lot of fun tho

30 and started with QBasic. Yeah yeah... i heard it was terrible at the time but i didn't have internet to get a real compiler or language. Had a lot of fun though. nothing anyone told me could stop me. Also, if i wanted to make windows programs, Win32 was an impossible beast to me. I, to this day, still have no idea how that mystical beast works even though I've coded a few programs in it. Some of these "frameworks" can be a little code heavy and have lots of technical details (MVVM and WPF come to mind) They are completely overwhelming while php and basic are simple and have little magic. That said, if i were to have a child soon, I would teach her racket using SICP.