[Kamog]

My first program was indeed a hello world program written in BASIC, on the Apple IIE. I was so happy and proud to be learning how to program a computer. That was a long long time ago. That year I went on to write spagetti code. In those days, each line of code had a line number and you had stuff like, "100 goto 250".

Then when I took my first programming course in university, on the first day the professor asked, "put up your hand if your first programming language was BASIC". I put up my hand, along with about half the people in the class. The professor says, "You are all contaminated - you learned to write spagetti code!". That course used Modula-2, and they were very strict about your code being neatly organized. That was a good thing, because I got rid of the bad habits I picked up earlier.