Thread:IAmAPersson/@comment-208.180.8.47-20140709015105/@comment-14600979-20140709145001

A lot of people (even now) began programming with BASIC.

My first real experience was with a PICAXE-08M2 (How's that for product placement?) and pin manipulation through BASIC. (This was part of a school club, and apparently I was "good" at it.  To this day, I still think it was because I was the only one who actually read the manual.)

Besides that, (and even there, I had very little help from instructors) I haven't had any "formal" instruction; The (little?) I know I taught myself (which wouldn't be so possible if I had entered with OOP)

Generally, kind of avoid programming "classes" (instructional, not...) because they assume you don't even know what TRUE/FALSE is.