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Started out with a Radioshack Color Computer 2 with 16k of memory on a color TV. Had a cassette tape drive and thermal printer. Wrote my first book report on what amounted to a cash register reciept and got a good grade on it in elementry.
Loved basic, wrote a dungeon crawler in it along with a bunch of other programs. Kids needs basic as much as people cringe at it now. I remember experimenting around with graphics in CGA. Making different patterns and things on the screen. Then tinkered with a drawing program out of a book all in basic.
Eventually I went on to doing C, C++, Java, etc. Still basic is and always will be the best language to start programming in. It's a shame it's not around any more and with proper education you can over come basic's short falls in programming style easly if and when you decide to move on.
