“My first ever programming language was BASIC in the early eighties…

"My first ever programming language was BASIC in the early eighties. One of my relatives bought a C64 for their kids to get started with learning computers. They only used it for gaming, and I was also invited. But they also had a book about BASIC, and I was curious and gave it a try" https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/opensource_com_first_programming_language/