In a way I do too. I learned BASIC as a child, before learning any “real” language or domain. I talk to people who are starting from scratch with JavaScript and I try to convince them to start with Scheme or something instead, because starting with something that just taught me the ideas of programming, without doing anything truly useful, turned out to be a huge advantage later on in life. I didn’t think about the browser, the DOM, the operating system, or any real-world use case, just 20 GOTO 10 and getting the computer to print silly words.
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In a way I do too. I learned BASIC as a child, before learning any “real” language or domain. I talk to people who are starting from scratch with JavaScript and I try to convince them to start with Scheme or something instead, because starting with something that just taught me the ideas of programming, without doing anything truly useful, turned out to be a huge advantage later on in life. I didn’t think about the browser, the DOM, the operating system, or any real-world use case, just 20 GOTO 10 and getting the computer to print silly words.